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Purim plays (Purim shpiln, in Yiddish), sometimes also called Esther plays, have been known since the fifteenth century in both Ashkenazic and Sephardic communities. These folk plays were performed on…
Ida Rubinstein, volunteering as a nurse in France during World War I, in a uniform specially designed for her by Leon Bakst. Dancer, actress, and patron of the arts Ida Rubinstein was born into a…
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…
Perhaps the most iconic photograph of the Six Day War is this one, of three Israeli paratroopers at the Western Wall shortly after its capture by the Israeli army on the third day of the war. A few…
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…
This ad for an exhibition at California State University Fullerton was intended as a manifesto. The artist Judy Gerowitz announced that she was divesting herself of “all names imposed upon her through…
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,”…
The Photo League, a socially conscious photographers’ collective that Walter Rosenblum joined in 1937, favored documenting everyday life over newsworthy events. The Lower East Side, with its crowded…
Chief photographer of the Department of Antiquities of the Mandatory Administration, Schweig is considered the first artistic photographer of landscapes and archaeological sites in Mandate-era…
Alfons Himmelreich created Land is Life as a cover for the May 1940 issue of the magazine A Land in Construction, a publication of the Jewish National Fund. He accepted the commission as an act of…
