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The Hebrew sign in this photograph, from the 1927 municipal election in Tel Aviv in 1927, urges: “Vote gimel” (the Hebrew letter on the ballot representing a particular party or slate of candidates)…
Daniel Cohn-Bendit was a student leader during the protest in France in May 1968, when up to ten million workers went on strike and 800,000 people marched through Paris. Here he vaults a police…
Albert Antebi (1873–1919), the subject of this photograph, was an educator, philanthropist, and diplomat in Ottoman Palestine. Born in Damascus to a rabbinical Jewish family, he became a prominent…
The History of the Russian Revolution: From Marx to Mayakovsky is a large mixed-media work that incorporates paintings, architectural cutouts, stenciled lettering, and found objects. It is one of…
Lavie was a leader of the Tel Aviv School, or 10+ group, artists who were among the first Israeli artists to incorporate pop art, found objects, and collage into their work. In the early 1960s, Lavie…
Shooting Targets, five photographs by Ophir that appear in the Necropolis Series, a joint work with Roi Kuper, depict Mercedes jeeps captured by the Israeli army during the Six Day War and Yom Kippur…
This postcard was printed by the Bund to commemorate the death of a worker, Kagan (Kohen), who was arrested in Mozir (today, Mazyr, Belarus) in the midst of one of the numerous protests against the…
Mikhail Trakhman was one of several Soviet photographers dropped behind enemy lines by Sovinformburo, the main Soviet agency for the distribution of war-related information, to report on partisans who…
Micha Bar-Am took this intimate photograph of Golda Meir soon after she became prime minister of Israel. She was the world’s fourth female prime minister and, as of 2022, the only woman to hold the…
German Chancellor Willie Brandt went down on his knees at the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on a trip to Poland. He was there to sign the Treaty of Warsaw, a key element of his “Ostpolitik,”…
