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Weissberg was a member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of them Jews from Central and Eastern Europe who had settled in Paris. Weissberg was a well-liked habitué…
This illustration is from Franciscan monk Eugène Roger’s La terre saincte (The Holy Land), a comprehensive study of the Land of Israel which includes dozens of etchings depicting Jewish, Muslim, Druze…
This is Camille Pissarro’s last self-portrait, painted in his Paris apartment. The artist has seated himself in front of a window, perhaps reflecting the fact that many of his paintings of Paris…
At the house of salonnière Geneviève Straus in Clos des Mûnieres, Trouville, Normandy, 1893. Sitting (from left) are Marcel Proust, Louis Ganderax, and Straus. Standing (from left) are an unidentified…
He Cast a Look and Went Mad depicts traditional East European Jews in some sort of religious setting but invokes in its title the classic talmudic legend of the sage who “looked and was injured” when…
Felix Nussbaum painted this self-portrait while he and his wife were in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, about a year before they were arrested and deported to Auschwitz. Every element of the picture…
Édouard Moyse’s paintings of Jewish religious life earned him the nickname “the painter of rabbis.” His paintings often depict an idealized Judaism not situated in a specific place or time. The…
Amedeo Modigliani painted La Juive before he developed the signature style of his late work: portraits of women with elongated necks and faces. But a hint of that style can be seen here in the…
A Suitor Calls with the Matchmaker. Illustration from Scènes familiales juives (Familiar Jewish Scenes), Alphonse Lévy’s book of caricatures of Alsatian rural Jewish life.
Arthur Kolnik dedicated his illustrations of Y. L. Peretz’s story, “A gilgl fun a nign” (The Transmigration of a Melody), to his brother, who, along with his family, was murdered in the Holocaust…
