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Cartoon in the satirical weekly Borsszem Jankó, depicting the first generation of Borsszem Janko’s writers and illustrators at Kávéforrás (the Coffee Fountain) on Fürdő Street in Budapest, Hungary.
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1887
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Jacob Epstein, “Morris Rosenfeld,” from Hutchins Hapgood’s The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York. Epstein was best-known for his sculptures, but he also created the…
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Jacob Epstein
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1904
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The three art nouveau-influenced covers by Ber Kratko for three of Y. L. Peretz’s plays feature somewhat grotesque figures. The one for Vos in fidele shtekt (What Sticks in the Fiddle) features a…
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Ber Kratko
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1910
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In recent years, a time when the branches of science planted in the vineyard of the Enlightenment stretch out to our brethren in our land [i.e., the Russian Empire], and many eat their fruit, and many…
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Mordechai Tsvi Mane
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1881
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The strongest testimony to life is productivity, and the most direct form of productivity is art. That is why those of us who announce a life of the Jewish people inquire into the possibility of…
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Martin Buber
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1901
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The problem of creating a body of translated literature in Yiddish is very important and must be solved systematically. This serves the interests of our original [Yiddish] literature best.
[I will…
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Moyshe Litvakov
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1918–1919
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In the interwar period, Liebermann’s portraits were highly sought after by the wealthy. He also produced many self-portraits. This one, painted when he was in his seventies, portrays him as a self…
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Max Liebermann
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1920
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The rough-hewn sculptures that Epstein created early in his career, like that of the painter Jacob Kramer (1892–1962), departed from the conventions of classical Greek sculpture in a radical way that…
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Jacob Epstein
Places:
Leeds, United States of America
Date:
1921
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June 7, 1943
Mr. Edward Alden Jewell
Art Editor
New York Times
229 West 43 Street
New York, N.Y.
Dear Mr. Jewell:
To the artist, the workings of the critical mind is one of life’s mysteries. That is…
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Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko
Places:
Brooklyn, United States of America
Date:
1943
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On the other side of the poem there is an orchard,
and in the orchard, a house with a roof of straw,
and three pine trees,
three watchmen who never speak, standing guard.
On the other side of the…
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Rokhl Korn
Places:
Montreal, Canada
Date:
1962