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Maurice Ascalon, sometimes called the father of modern Israeli decorative arts, was commissioned to create this sculpture for the façade of the Palestine Pavilion of the 1939 New York World’s Fair…
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Maurice Ascalon
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Palestine)
Date:
1939
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Katherine M. Cohen created a number of sculptures that explored Jewish themes, including Jewish Scholar. She also sculpted, on commission, portrait busts of prominent Philadelphia Jews, such as Judge…
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Katherine M. Cohen
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1906
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This bronze plaque, one of the many decorative art objects produced in the workshops of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, depicts the biblical prophet Jeremiah, whose name is…
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Boris Schatz
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1911
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In The Dead Class, the most famous of Kantor’s theater pieces from the 1970s, the main characters of the play are elderly men (who are to be understood as being dead), who return to their school desks…
Contributor:
Tadeusz Kantor
Places:
Kraków, Poland
Date:
1975