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Chief photographer of the Department of Antiquities of the Mandatory Administration, Schweig is considered the first artistic photographer of landscapes and archaeological sites in Mandate-era…
The two maps show the differences in state boundaries before and after World War I. The striking alterations resulted from the dissolution of four empires, the emergence of new states and the…
Nimrod provoked controversy when it was first presented to the public. The biblical Nimrod was a hunter, but he was also associated with rebellion, especially in talmudic literature, and he appears…
Alfons Himmelreich created Land is Life as a cover for the May 1940 issue of the magazine A Land in Construction, a publication of the Jewish National Fund. He accepted the commission as an act of…
The Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, is home to the second-oldest congregation in the United States. As Sephardic Jews began emigrating from the Caribbean to colonial America in the…
This caricature by the Henschel brothers celebrates the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig in December 1813. This battle, the final in Napoleon’s “German Campaign,” is also known as the…
This one painting conveys many messages about the benefits of integration and emancipation as well as the inner conflicts they provoked.
The Arrest of the Deserter depicts a scene from an 1844 comedy, Dominique the Deserter, set in the seventeenth century. Rebecca Solomon painted domestic scenes and scenes of modern Victorian life, but…
Camille Pissarro painted landscapes that, unusually for the time, included industrial elements, like this sugar-beet factory near Pissarro’s home in Pontoise. Like other impressionist paintings, this…
The Dutch Sewing School is from a period in Max Liebermann’s career when Dutch peasants were a common subject in his work. The sewing school seen here was in an orphanage in Amsterdam. While he…
