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The Kindling of the Hanukkah Lights
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The Kindling of the Hanukkah Lights is one of the many works portraying Jewish family life and scenes of Jewish domestic observances by German Jewish artist Moritz Oppenheim. Though painted in the…

Contributor:

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Date:

1880

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Holidays, Hanukkah, Family, Piety

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting of people of various ages in room, several of whom light a candelabrum by the window.
Purim Story
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Illustrated folk depiction of the story of Purim by Moshe Mizrachi (Jerusalem: Monsohn, 1902). The top panels depict the villain of the story, Haman, leading the hero Mordechai on a horse and the…

Contributor:

Moshe Mizrachi

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1902

Subjects:

Purim, Piety, Jewish identity, Holidays, Aesthetics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Fiction
Illustration in three horizontal and one vertical panel, depicting figures on horseback, a king, a row of soldiers in chains, and a man hanging.
Speech: On Jews and Nationalism
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Are we always and in all circumstances united with our surroundings, so that only the synagogue, rather than society, attests to separation? Do not believe that in such unity and cooperation I mean…

Contributor:

Abraham Wertheim

Places:

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Date:

1893

Subjects:

Nationalism, Jewish identity, Holidays, Synagogue, Piety

Categories:

Political Culture, Religion & Theology, Speeches