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Elephantine letter, dated to year 17 of King Darius II (November 25, 407 BCE). See Request about the Rebuilding of the Elephantine Temple) and Darius and Xerxes, Kings of Persia. The letter is…
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407 BCE
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Scribes writing lists, Nimrud, late eighth century BCE. Two Assyrian scribes, standing side by side, make lists of booty as it comes in. One writes on a clay tablet and the other writes on a scroll.
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Late 8th Century BCE
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This relief, from Sennacherib’s palace in Nineveh, shows Sennacherib’s army attacking Lachish (an event alluded to in 2 Kings 18:14 and 17). Sennacherib is sitting on his throne outside the city…
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700–681 BCE
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Judah
Israel
Rehoboam 928–911 BCE
Jeroboam I 928–907 BCE
Abijah 911–908 BCE
Nadab 907–906 BCE
Asa 908–867 BCE
Baasha 906–883 BCE
Elah 883–882 BCE
Zimri 882 BCE
Tibni 882–878 BCE
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11th–6th Century BCE
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Now Jacob was settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan. This, then, is the line of Jacob:
At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended…
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Biblical Period
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On the third new moon after the Israelites had gone forth from the land of Egypt, on that very day, they entered the wilderness of Sinai. Having journeyed from Rephidim, they entered the…
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The Folkspartei (Folk Party), which championed the goal of Jewish national autonomy in the diaspora, was founded in Saint Petersburg in 1906 under the leadership of the historian Simon Dubnow and…
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Solomon Yudovin
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ca. 1918
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An important Jewish genre painter, Kaufman drew inspiration for his romantic depictions of traditional Jewish life from trips to Moravia and Upper Hungary, Galicia and Bukovina and areas of Russian…
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Isidor Kaufmann
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Vienna, First Austrian Republic (Vienna, Austria)
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1921
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Saul Tchernichovski (1875–1943) is considered one of the great modern Hebrew poets. His poems are part of the canon of Israeli literature, and his portrait appears on Israeli currency. Pasternak…
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Leonid Pasternak
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
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1923
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This painting dates to the early years of Walkowitz’s career, when he frequently painted New York cityscapes. Walkowitz’s cubist style was well suited to capturing the skyscrapers, elevated trains…
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Abraham Walkowitz
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New York City, United States of America
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1923