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Karle:Who is coming? What do I hear! God Almighty![Markwitz standing in the door.]Markwitz, tall, thin appearance. Threadbare elegance of the nineties. He is, without a doubt, a…
“Miss Duncan? The dancer? What is that—ballet?” No, it is not ballet. Missing here are the two predominant elements that make up modern ballet: there is neither dance technique nor women wearing…
Written on the Occasion of the Ritual Slaughter Decree in Poland, 1936 [Parliament considered a bill to have animals killed by electricity, rather than by a knife, as required by Jewish law. The bill…
In the wake of the Russian Revolution and the lifting of restrictions on Jewish publishing, Jewish theater companies revolutionized theater and scene design and experimented with modernist approaches…
Soyer’s informal family portrait, Dancing Lesson, has become an iconic image of the American Jewish experience, appearing on many book covers and exhibition catalogs. It was painted about thirteen…
Mané-Katz was a prominent member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of whom were Jews from Eastern and Central Europe. Mané-Katz painted in a modernist style but…
Painting in an expressionist style, Tofel was involved in the Jewish Art Center in New York (1925–1927) that held exhibitions on Yiddish culture. He was also active in a group of American Yiddish…
Der Shokhet (The Ritual Slaughterer) is one of a set of thirty lithographs that Ryback published in 1923 in a book memorializing the Jewish communities destroyed during World War I and in the…
The Collector dates from the last year of Israëls’s life. It is in the style of Dutch impressionism, which emphasized the essence of a subject, rather than its light and color as did French…
This 1934 illustration of the Passover story of the four sons features a caricature of the “wicked” son dressed as Hitler.
