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Le grand Rabbin aumônier Abraham Bloch (The Chief Rabbi Abraham Bloch)
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Rabbi Abraham Bloch was a French army chaplain, killed in 1914 while holding a crucifix for a dying Catholic soldier. In 1934 the French government erected a monument in his memory at the spot where…

Contributor:

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer

Places:

Algiers, French Algeria (Algiers, Algeria)

Date:

1917

Subjects:

Art, Painting, Medicine, War, Christianity

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting depicting man in hat holding a crucifix over a dying man in a bed.