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Mark Gertler’s Jewish Family is not meant to be a portrait of a specific Jewish family but is instead an archetype painted in a style that evokes folk art and early Italian painting. The model for the…
Head of a Young Jew, Natan Altman’s most famous sculpture, is an expression of his desire to set a new, modern course for Jewish art. The asymmetrical sculpture, a combination of bronze, copper, and…
Yizkor: Tsum ondenk fun di gefalene vekhter un arbeyter in erets-yisroel (Yizkor: In Memory of the Fallen Watchmen and Workers in the Land of Israel) commemorates fallen Jewish guards and workers who…
By the early twentieth century, many Jewish women in Algeria dressed in European clothing for daily activities. Yet many also continued to dress in their traditional garb for ceremonial and…
Dr. Herzl: Bravo! Bravo Abdul Hamid! To the right, the heads of the Greeks (Macedonians), to the left, those of the Amalekites (Armenians)! Keep going! I know that you are merciful and pious! Give…
Dos naye lebn (New Life) was a Yiddish literary and political monthly founded and edited by Haim Zhitlovsky and published in New York. Among the topics debated in its pages was the question of whether…
Cover page of G. Bocz’s Yiddish-language biology textbook, Geviksn: Baarbet Avrom Golomb (Plants: Reworked by Avrom Golomb).
Paintings with biblical themes were among the genres for which Solomon J. Solomon was best known and which made him popular with both the public and critics in Victorian England and France. Here, he…
I am in the process of preparing a rather copious work on Salonica, its past, and its present. The history of the [Jewish] community has given me quite a headache. I have gone through a pile of…
“Is the Bene-Israel in India a pure Jew by descent” is the question often asked and discussed. There has been considerable literature on the subject especially by aliens, even such as can claim little…