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Geneviève Straus Sitting with Proust et al.
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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…

Contributor:

Photographer Unknown

Places:

Normandy, France

Date:

1893

Subjects:

Portrait, Philosophy, Class, Jewish identity, Scholarship

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Photograph of several figures sitting at table in garden and signatures below as labels.
Jeremiah
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This bronze plaque, one of the many decorative art objects produced in the workshops of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, depicts the biblical prophet Jeremiah, whose name is…

Contributor:

Boris Schatz

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Education, Philosophy, Scholarship, Portrait

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Sculpture
Etching of bearded man looking at viewer with pen in hand and sheet of paper on his lap.
The Difficult Question
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Early in his career, Jacob Meyer de Haan (also known as Isaac Meyer de Haan) was known for his Jewish genre paintings. In this one, painted in 1880 while de Haan still resided in the Netherlands, a…

Contributor:

Jacob Meyer de Haan

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1889–1892

Subjects:

Education, Scholarship, Medicine, Philosophy, Modernity

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting of young woman standing next to three men seated at a table with open books.