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Beginning in 1958, Orkin took photographs from the window of her fifteenth-floor apartment overlooking New York City’s Central Park. She wrote that she spent a lot of time waiting “for the clouds to…
My Mother Posing for Me is one of a series of photographs that Sultan made of his parents, Irving and Jean, from 1983 to 1992. They were published in his book, Pictures from Home, which explored the…
I have a great coat. I have round black eyes. I have a cap. I raise my hands. I am the boy whose hands are raised in the picture.
The actor, comedian, and playwright Donat (David) Herrnfeld grew up in the small town of Raab (Győr) in Hungary; his family later moved to Vienna. Donat and his siblings performed and toured early on…
Very little is known about Rahlo Jammele, who performed so-called Moorish dances at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair (Columbian Exposition) “Turkish Village” pavilion. Fair materials described her as “a…
This photograph was made by the young graphic artist and photographer Solomon Yudovin in the context of his participation in Jewish writer, folklorist, and cultural activist S. An-ski’s famed…
Members of the Bund (General Union of Jewish Workers in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia), Po‘ale Tsiyon, the Socialist-Zionist party, and Jewish trade unions, along with representatives of the Russian…
The Hand of Man appeared in the first issue of Alfred Stieglitz’s journal, Camera Work. Its title alludes both to the transformation of the natural world by humans and the capacity of humans to create…
In 1915, photographer Léon Gimpel began spending time with a group of children he had encountered in the Rue de Grenata neighborhood in Paris. It was during World War I, and the boys’ favorite…
Elizabeth Street 10b is a stunning example of the Jugendstil style for which the buildings designed by Mikhail Eisenstein are known. The façade of this apartment building is built of brown stone…
