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Astérix le Gaulois is set in the first century BCE, during Rome’s conquest of Gaul (France), focusing on the inhabitants of a small village who, given superhuman strength by a magic potion prepared by…
The pen-on-paper Tu tournes lentement, an example of surrealist automatic painting, depicts women and fragmented humanoid shapes in dance-like movement. It was drawn by Paul Păun during World War II…
L’il Abner, set in the fictional town of Dogpatch in Kentucky, presented a stereotyped view of the U.S. South. But its trenchant satire targeted political and social issues, and popular culture. Here…
When the company owned by Jacob Abraham Jesurun (1806–1875) obtained a contract for mail delivery within the Caribbean in 1867, it had its own stamps printed featuring the firm’s initials, J. A. J. &…
The young Jewish intellectuals of Barcinski’s generation were interested in pushing boundaries, including by employing Christian imagery, as Barcinski did in this portrait of John the Baptist. The…
This woodcut was published in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) after Aronson had left the Soviet Union. In it, Aronson combined elements of cubo-futurism and constructivism. Several figures can be spotted…
Tkhiyes-hameysim (The Resurrection of the Dead) is a dramatic poem by Moyshe Broderzon inspired by medieval Christian “mystery” (or “miracle”) plays that presented bible stories and were performed in…
Frenkel, whose work was shaped by the School of Paris (École de Paris), played a key role in bringing modernism to Israeli art. Among his students were prominent members of what is known as the Land…
In 1920 and 1921, Broderzon, the guiding force of Yung-yidish (Young Yiddish), a literary and artistic group he co-founded in Łódź, published over half a dozen books of poetry and plays. Prolific and…
Louis Mitelberg drew this cartoon in ironic response to a 1967 comment made by French president Charles De Gaulle in the wake of the Six Day War, in which he described the Jewish people (now that they…
