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Nocturne was painted after Marcel Janco and his family moved to Palestine. Showing two men ministering to a mortally wounded soldier, surrounded by weeping, lamenting figures, the painting creates a…
In The Wandering Jew, a man driven mad with horror runs through an apocalyptic landscape full of crucifixes and strewn with corpses. A protest against the long history of Christian persecution of Jews…
Yankl Adler painted The Mutilated in London during a period of heavy bombing in homage to “the behavior of Londoners under great stress and suffering.” He made two other paintings the same style and…
The Day after the Pogrom was painted shortly after the Kishinev pogrom, in which forty-nine Jews were murdered, more than 500 injured, many Jewish women raped, 700 houses ransacked and destroyed, 600…
Red Stripe Kitchen is from Martha Rosler’s Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful, a series created to protest the Vietnam War and the ways in which Americans distance themselves from violence…
Issachar Ber Ryback painted Pogrom during the Russian Civil War, when waves of pogroms were occurring in Ukraine and other areas in the former Pale of Settlement. In the foreground a slain man…
