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This calligraphic print appears in Ben Shahn’s book Alphabet of Creation, based on a tale about how God created the world through the letters of the Hebrew alphabet taken from the Zohar, a thirteenth…
Contributor:
Ben Shahn
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1957
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Anatoly Kaplan’s painting Pakhar’ both commemorates the lost Jewish world of his childhood and reflects accepted Soviet iconography. The Yiddish inscription that frames the central image reads,…
Contributor:
Anatoly Kaplan
Places:
Leningrad, USSR (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1960