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There have traditionally been two different interpretations of the biblical Song of Songs. It can be read as an erotic love poem or as a poem of yearning for the Land of Israel. Ze’ev Raban’s…
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Ze’ev Raban
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1911–1918
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This erotic illustration by Joseph Chaikov was made for a lavish edition of the biblical Song of Songs published by the Yiddish Kultur-lige in Kiev in 1918–1919. The forms of the embracing couple here…
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Joseph (Iosif) Chaikov
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1918–1919