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In Search of Missing Collection: The Case of Artist Albert Rappaport

open access: yesMeno Istorija ir Kritika, 2021
The artist Albert Rappaport was born in Anykščiai in 1898. In 1911, the family emigrated to New York. Rappaport became an American citizen in 1925 and began to travel widely. He studied fine art in New York, Paris, Dresden and Munich.
Gradinskaitė Vilma
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UN’ARTE PER GLI EBREI, UN’ARTE PER IL MONDO. LE STRADE DI EL LISSITZKY E MOYSHE BRODERZON

open access: yesPl.it, 2022
For a short but fertile period, the paths of the two extraordinary artists El Lissitzky (1890-1941) and Moyshe Broderzon (1890-1956) intersected and gave rise to important artistic projects.
Quercioli Mincer Laura
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Prey of Pray: Allegorizing the Liturgical Practice

open access: yesArts, 2019
Numerous images embedded in the painted decorations in early modern Central and Eastern European synagogues conveyed allegorical messages to the congregation.
Zvi Orgad
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The zodiac: Renaissance of the astrological symbol in Eastern European wooden synagogues from the 17th and 18th centuries

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2023
The article presents a multidisciplinary analysis of the complex relationship between intangible elements of culture that led to the presentation of the zodiac in Jewish folk art and architecture.
Tomasz Eugeniusz Malec
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Exceptionally Jewish: Israeli Synagogue Architecture in the 1960s and 1970s

open access: yesArts, 2020
This article examines three exceptional synagogues designed in Israel in the 1960s and 1970s. It aims to explore the tension between these iconic structures and the artworks integrated into them.
Naomi Simhony
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The Jewish attitude towards the playing of music in the Tripartite Mahzor

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2020
The Tripartite Mahzor (Lake Constance, Southern Germany, ca. 1322) is an illuminated manuscript of an Ashkenazi Hebrew prayer book used on special Sabbaths (Saturdays) and festivals.
Guy Shaked
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Radicant Israeli Art: From Past to Future

open access: yesArts, 2020
Mieke Bal’s concept of “migratory aesthetics” and the observation by Saloni Mathur and Anne Ring Peterson that “traditional notions of location, origin and authenticity seem obsolete and in urgent need of reconsideration” ...
Ori Z. Soltes
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NEW JEWISH STYLE IN LVIV ARCHITECTURE: THE HISTORIC TRANSFORMATION IN THE URBAN SPACE

open access: yesArchitecture and Engineering, 2020
Introduction: The phenomenon of expressing national identity in architecture is manifested in many countries and cities. In this article, it is considered in the context of Lviv with the main focus on Jewish architects.
Yuri Biryulov
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Artistic Features of Besamims in Eastern Galicia in the 18th – the first third of the 20th Century

open access: yesStudia Żydowskie, 2015
The paper focuses on the art of the Jewish community of Galicia from the 18th century to the first third of the 20th century in the context of the European art processes.
Natalia Levkovych
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The Medieval Synagogue of Molina de Aragón: Architecture and Decoration

open access: yesArts, 2020
The remains of a medieval synagogue, in addition to numerous fragments of plaster decoration, have been found as a result of the excavation work done at the Prao de los Judíos archaeological site in the town of Molina de Aragón (Guadalajara ...
Daniel Muñoz-Garrido
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