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This watercolor from the Gennadius Library’s Costume Album collection, in Athens, depicts two Jewish women—a widow (left) and a married woman (right)—in the colorful traditional attire of…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1574
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Silence, and a starry night
Frost crackling, fine as sand.
Remember how I taught you
To hold a gun in your hand?
In fur jacket and beret,
Clutching a hand grenade,
A girl whose skin is velvet
Ambus…
Contributor:
Hirsh Glik
Places:
Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1942