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Everyone Who Mourns Jerusalem Reaps Its Joy (at the Wailing Wall)
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The title of this etching comes from the inscription that appears on the lower left. The picture depicts a Hasidic Jew in Jerusalem praying at the Western Wall, the remnant of the Second Temple that…

Contributor:

Hermann Struck

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

ca. 1905

Subjects:

Modernism, Jewish identity, Jerusalem, Piety, Mourning

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Etching of figure facing a wall.
Birds of the Shade
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“The birds, Regina! The birds! The birds!” he cried out. “You don’t hear? Our child…Issachar!…Issachar!…Regina!…That bird…Issachar…that bird…that bird.…” When Luna entered the room with her bridegroom…

Contributor:

Dan-Benaya Seri

Places:

Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

1987

Subjects:

Family, Children, Jewish identity, Piety, Mourning

Categories:

Fiction