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The Wandering Jew
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In The Wandering Jew, a man driven mad with horror runs through an apocalyptic landscape full of crucifixes and strewn with corpses. A protest against the long history of Christian persecution of Jews…

Contributor:

Samuel Hirszenberg

Places:

Lodz, Russian Empire (Lodz, Poland)

Date:

1899

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Migration, Antisemitism, Death, Violence

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting of wide-eyed man walking through dead bodies and crucifixes.
Pogrom
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Issachar Ber Ryback painted Pogrom during the Russian Civil War, when waves of pogroms were occurring in Ukraine and other areas in the former Pale of Settlement. In the foreground a slain man…

Contributor:

Issachar Ber Ryback

Places:

Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Pogroms, Expressionism, Antisemitism, Jewish identity, Violence

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting of central rock-like formation surrounded by figures charging with bloody swords, and bloody figure lying on ground clutching a Torah scroll.