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The soldier-artist Raphael Avraham Shalem used found objects, such as shell cases, as the material for his artworks. On this shell casing, he engraved a view of Rachel’s Tomb, a site revered by Jews…
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Raphael Avraham Shalem
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ca. 1915
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Survivors Are Not Heroes stands five meters tall on the St. George Campus of the University of Toronto. Etrog intended the bronze sculpture to serve as a critique of traditional war memorials, which…
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Sorel Etrog
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Toronto, Canada
Date:
1967
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Vadim Sidur was sometimes called “the Soviet Henry Moore” because of the similarities between his aesthetic and those of the British artist. In Sidur’s native Soviet Union, however, his work was…
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Vadim Sidur
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Pushkin, USSR (Pushkin, Russia)
Date:
1972
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Few works by Louise Nevelson allude to Jewish themes. Homage to the Six Million is one of the exceptions. She said of her sculpture that she hoped it would create “a living presence of a people who…
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Louise Nevelson
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1964