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As [Saul] turned around to leave Samuel, God gave him another heart; [ . . . ]. And when they came there, to the Hill, he saw a band of prophets coming toward him. Thereupon the spirit of God…
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This etching of a Jewish woman from Thrace (a region located in present day Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey) is from Livre curieux contenant la naive représentation des habits des femmes des diverses…
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Wenceslaus Hollar
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Arundel, Kingdom of Great Britain (Arundel, United Kingdom)
Date:
1644
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And suddenly he lifted his eyes to see,
A stranger approaching the hill with the tree.
He jumped off the branch and hurried below,
Joining the old man who walked on the road.
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Yocheved Saks
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Bnei Brak, Israel
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1977
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A depiction of a Jew from Lorraine, engraved by Sébastien Leclerc in Paris. The antisemitic inscription, which alludes to the Jewish man having acquired wealth by deceptive means, is a rhymed couplet…
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Sébastien Leclerc
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
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1664
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This drawing by Else Lasker-Schüler appeared on the frontispiece of her 1912 novel Mein Herz: Ein Liebes Roman (My Heart: A Novel of Love). Lasker-Schüler created a fantastical world in her poems and…
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Else Lasker-Schüler
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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ca. 1912
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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…
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Mark Gertler
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
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1913
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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…
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French Protectorate of Algeria (Algeria, Algeria)
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Early 20th Century
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Clothing is an art, and it requires talent from women and men alike. This talent, however, is innate to people. It is a talent that every woman and every man can develop by observing…
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Tashrak (Yisroel Yosef Zevin)
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1912