Showing Results 1 - 10 of 43
Restricted
Image
Janco and the subject of this portrait, poet Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), played leading roles in creating the Dada movement in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I. Janco made several masks that…
Contributor:
Marcel Janco
Places:
Zurich, Switzerland
Date:
1919
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
This portrait of Aharon Meskin (1898–1974) exemplifies Ben-Zvi’s cubist sculpture. Meskin was a leading actor in the Hebrew-language Habima Theater, who began his association with the troupe while it…
Contributor:
Ze’ev Ben-Zvi
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1938
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
The Bechhofen Synagogue (built in 1685) is believed to have been the largest wooden synagogue in Germany. The interior of the synagogue was painted with lavish decorations in 1732 and 1733, in typical…
Contributor:
Eliezer Zusman of Brody
Places:
Bechhofen, Holy Roman Empire (Bechhofen, Germany)
Date:
1684
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
An artist with political and social axes to grind, Garbuz created two images from acrylic, pencils, and spray paint on plywood with the title Bad Waters. Three different scenes are portrayed in this…
Contributor:
Yair Garbuz
Places:
Date:
2004
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Yehudah Pen painted this portrait of Marc Chagall soon after Chagall returned to Vitebsk from Paris in order to marry his sweetheart, Bella. While he was there, World War I broke out, and Chagall was…
Contributor:
Yehudah Pen
Places:
Vitebsk, Russian Empire (Vitebsk, Belarus)
Date:
1914
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Jacob Epstein, “Morris Rosenfeld,” from Hutchins Hapgood’s The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York. Epstein was best-known for his sculptures, but he also created the…
Contributor:
Jacob Epstein
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1904
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Cartoon in the satirical weekly Borsszem Jankó, depicting the first generation of Borsszem Janko’s writers and illustrators at Kávéforrás (the Coffee Fountain) on Fürdő Street in Budapest, Hungary.
Date:
1887
Categories:
Restricted
Image
The book of Esther is chanted aloud from a scroll (megillah) on the holiday of Purim. This example from the Netherlands is lavishly decorated, with the Hebrew text framed by arcades between which are…
Contributor:
Shalom Italia
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1640
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Moses ben Abraham Pescarol’s illuminated scroll of Esther, completed in Ferrara, constitutes one of the oldest and most unusual examples of illustrated manuscripts of this biblical book, which is…
Contributor:
Moses Pescarol
Places:
Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1616
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
This Haggadah from Amsterdam was printed by Joseph ben Abraham Athias and is adorned with elaborate copper etchings by artist Abraham Bar Jacob. It was the first Haggadah to include these sorts of…
Contributor:
Joseph ben Abraham Athias, Abraham Bar Jacob
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1695