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Amedeo Modigliani painted La Juive before he developed the signature style of his late work: portraits of women with elongated necks and faces. But a hint of that style can be seen here in the…
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Amedeo Modigliani
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Paris, France
Date:
1908
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Weber was one of the few American modernists to paint religious subjects. He painted Sabbath around the time he became associated with a group of American Yiddish writers called Di yunge (The Young…
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Max Weber
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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The socially conscious writer Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) grew up in an established Sephardic family in New York. Lazarus’s eloquent essays, emotive poetry, and insightful translations—particularly of…
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Thomas Johnson
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1790
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Johanna Maria Jenny Lind (born Johanna Maria Lind, 1820–1887) was known as the “Swedish Nightingale” and was one of the most highly regarded singers of the nineteenth century. After performing in…
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Eduard Magnus
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1846
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Born in London, as a young girl Abigaill Levy immigrated with her parents to New York City. In 1712, she married Jacob Franks, with whom she would have nine children. Despite his Ashkenazic family…
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Gerardus Duyckinck I
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New York City, Great Britain (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1735
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Here, Catherine da Costa, the first known female Jewish painter, has painted her daughter and granddaughter to resemble a Madonna and child. An unidentified woman leans over the infant, seemingly…
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Catherine da Costa
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London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1745
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Seura Chaya # 1 is one of many photographs that Wilke made of her mother and herself when they were dying of cancer. The two separate series were a continuation of her use of her art to focus on…
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Hannah Wilke
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1989
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A woman holding an infant sits on a rock under a gloomy sky at twilight or dawn. In the background is the wreck of a boat. Julius Muhr painted other sentimental and romantic paintings like this one…
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Julius Muhr
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Munich, German Confederation (Munich, Germany)
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ca. 1860s
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Jewish Street in Amsterdam is one of the many landscapes that Tina Blau painted in her career. It is painted in the style of Austrian Stimmungsimpressionismus (atmospheric impressionism), which was…
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Tina Blau
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1875–1876
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In The Travelers, one of a series of “Mother Paintings,” Marie-Louise Motesiczky depicts herself and her mother, Henrietta (the white-haired woman at right), escaping from Nazi-occupied Austria…
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Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
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1940