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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, Sculpture

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Sculpture
Etching of bearded man looking at viewer with pen in hand and sheet of paper on his lap.
Nimrod
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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…

Contributor:

Itzhak Danziger

Places:

Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1939

Subjects:

Aesthetics, Modernism, Jewish identity, Sculpture

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Sculpture
Sandstone sculpture of the upper torso of a naked man with animal features and a bow along his backbone.