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Michael
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“Portrait of Old Woman” by Yehuda Epstein (Polish) – Oil on canvas / 1910 – The Israel Museum, Jerusalem #WomenInArt #OldWoman #art #artText #artwork #BlueskyArt #arte #PortraitofaWoman #YehudaEpstein #JudaEpstein #Realism #AcademicRealism #JewishArt #IsraelMuseumJerusalem #IsraelMuseum #1910sArt
Painted in Vienna a few years before World War I, the portrait reflects Polish-born (Russian Empire), Austrian-based painter Yehuda (also Jehudo) Epstein’s devotion to dignifying everyday Jewish sitters from Eastern-European life. An elderly woman faces us directly, cropped to the shoulders against a soft brown background. Her light beige skin is finely lined at brow, eyes, and mouth as half-lowered lids lend a steady, thoughtful gaze. A pale gray headscarf sits low across her forehead while a heavy tawny-ochre shawl wraps her neck and shoulders, falling in broad, weighty folds. The light is frontal and cool, pooling along the bridge of her nose, cheekbones, and the fine ridge of her upper lip, while the sides sink into quiet shadow. Lean, matte brushstrokes leave the canvas weave visible, heightening her still, intimate, unadorned presence. The shawl’s earthen tones and simple headscarf read as markers of modesty and labor; the close crop and compressed space refuse spectacle, inviting us to read time and experience in the sitter’s features. Around 1910, Epstein was working within an academic realist language while pushing toward psychological presence, an approach that would later undergird his recognition in Vienna and his service as an official artist during the war. Here, the close crop, earthen palette, and the elderly woman’s unwavering look turn age into testimony rather than stereotype. Born in Słonim in the Russian Empire (today Belarus), Epstein trained at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and built his career there, favoring sober realism and psychological attentiveness over Secessionist flourish. His themes spanned ghetto figures, biblical scenes, landscapes, and portraits. During World War I he served as an official Austrian war artist; in 1923 he was appointed Professor at the Vienna Academy. In the mid-1930s, he emigrated to South Africa, extending his practice into a wider diaspora.
October 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM Everybody can reply
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Oneness and Chaos
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Morning sketch process of Chagall stained glass windows - the America Windows - at the Art Institute of Chicago.
As a Jewish artist, he survived pogroms.
So many scapegoats in Trump 2.0. Will they survive to make art?
#jewishart
#antifascist
#immigrantrights
#lgbt
January 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM Everybody can reply
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𝒦𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓁 ℒℯ𝓋𝒾 𝒫𝓎𝓀𝒶 𝒫ℯ𝓃𝓃ℯ𝓇
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Happy Purim Chag Purim Sameach and Happy Shabbes #jewishart #art #hashem #kotel #jewish #jerusalem #israel #shanatova #happyshabbat #shabbos #shabbat #shabbatshalom #judaicaart #ashkenazi #sephardi #menorah #davidstar #jewishlearning #chassidic #orthodoxjudaism #jewishfaith #israelphotooftheday
March 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM Everybody can reply
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Nadav Weisswodka
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Just an #Illustration of a juice box🧃
Be aware of the side effects ;)

#juice #art #juicebox #artist #humor #cute #digital #juicy #jewish #jewishart #ifjewknowjewknow #joke #applejuice #jewishhumor
October 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM Everybody can reply
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Yemina Chana
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When I get some down time of controlling the weather with my space lasers, I do more Jew stuffs like paint these fine ladies. #artistsofbluesky #art #artistlife #jewishart #jewishlife
August 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM Everybody can reply
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Ayeola Omolara Kaplan
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I felt I needed to add a lot of context for this piece when I shared it on Instagram but I’m hoping it can speak for itself here on blue sky! (And the character limit here is brutal 😮‍💨) #art #artist #procreate #digitalart #antizionist #antizionistjew #jewishart #jewish #blackandjewish #blackjew
January 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM Everybody can reply
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Ayeola Omolara Kaplan
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Collaborative WIP. I’m working on a piece with a comrade in entirely B&W. The concept is that we pass a jpg back n forth until we feel the artwork is finished! I just completed the first edition yesterday. I’ll keep ya’ll updated in this project!
Reference included for those interested
#jewishart
May 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM Everybody can reply
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Ann Diament Koffsky
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Starting a new papercut, for my nephew and his new kallah! Mazel tov!

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#jewish #wedding #papercut #hebrew #jewishjoy #art #jewishart #collage
August 14, 2024 at 11:26 AM Everybody can reply
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Donna E
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These Irreplaceable Yiddish Artifacts Would Have Been Lost to History If They Weren't Evacuated to New York After World War II: The founding of a research institute 100 years ago has helped to provide insight… @SmithsonianMag #YiddishCulture #CulturalHeritage #WorldWarII #NewYorkHistory #JewishArt
These Irreplaceable Yiddish Artifacts Would Have Been Lost to History If They Weren't Evacuated to New York After World War II
The founding of a research institute 100 years ago has helped to provide insight on Yiddish culture in the United States and around the world
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May 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM Everybody can reply
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Dov Ben-Shimon
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Tel Aviv Port

2025, acrylic paint on vinyl LP with a gloss finish.

#Israel #Israelart #Jewish #Jewishart
#TelAviv
April 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM Everybody can reply
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Nadav Weisswodka
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Shabbat Shalom
#shabbat #jewish #art #judaica #jews #jewishart #illustration #judaism #jewishgirl #shalom #peace #artist #oc #jewishcharacter
June 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM Everybody can reply
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Nadav Weisswodka
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Lila and Ruth ✡️💋
Shabbat Shalom

#art #jewish #jews #jewishgirls #mizrahi #jewishart #wlw #judaism #artist
May 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM Everybody can reply
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Clay
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you see this post some holiday tree art 🌲

Continuing the winter holiday potluck with Chanukah art from last year.

Party animals all tuckered out. Latkes and sufganiyot ‘ll do that to ya.

#kidLitArt #JewishArt #illustration #Chanukah #Hannukah
A gathering of northern forest animals such as foxes, bears, hedgehogs, and mice snuggles around a lit menorah. The candles glow against snowy pine trees with a thin sliver of a moon in the night sky. A crow steals a dreidel and a Cardinal attempts to share some gelt while little mice with full bellies snooze on some plates of latke and sufganiyot remnants. Illustration by Clay Mil.
December 11, 2024 at 8:45 PM Everybody can reply
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Ayeola Omolara Kaplan
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I created this piece in 2023 on the Tu’bishvat, the Jewish holiday celebrating trees. It was the same day as Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The fight for environmental justice and human rights are irreparably linked 💕❤️🌍🪷

#jewishart #procreate #digitalart #art #illustration #digitalartist
February 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM Everybody can reply
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James M. Branum
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Sharing this secular version of a #Shivti on the themes of #Diaspora, and resistance to #nationalism of all varieties.

#JewishArt
February 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM Everybody can reply
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Hidden Treasures
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Today's treasure is this painting from the Ben Uri collections by Dora Holzhandler who was born 22 March, 1928.

Find out more about it here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/stories/moth...

📷 Mother and Children in Holland Park • Dora Holzhandler • Ben Uri Archive

#JewishCulture #JewishArt #Archives
Mother and Children in Holland Park - Hidden Treasures
Mother and Children in Holland Park • Dora Holzhandler • Ben Uri Archive
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March 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM Everybody can reply
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Rebecca Field
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Today begins my favorite holiday! Sukkot celebrates the harvest and our spiritual connection with the natural world. A Sukkah is a little hut that is built and covered with natural materials- The roof must be made so that the stars can be seen from inside. #kidlit #kidlitart #sukkot #jewishart
October 16, 2024 at 12:34 PM Everybody can reply
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Rabbi Samantha Kahn
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Bedazzled Schneerson anyone??? I did *NOT* make this one… it was donated to our reform synagogue and - though lovely - not likely to be hung anywhere... I do appreciate the glitter though. #jewishart #strangegifts #soclose
November 20, 2024 at 2:22 AM Everybody can reply
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Marti Fuerst
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Thinking a lot about all the women in the Passover story, so I decided to push a little coupon code on my shop. It doesn't work just yet (since Passover starts tomorrow, sillies), but come back after Shabbat and enjoy 18% off a print of Serah, Tzipporah, or Miriam. #jewsky #jewishart #jewishjoy
Three paintings of women in oval frames against an illustration of a tan brick wall. They are all wearing headcoverings. A teal coupon sits below them with the words Pesach 18% off prints of Exodus heroines, martifuerst.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM Everybody can reply
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Ayeola Omolara Kaplan
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Interdependence, digital painting 🖼️

🍠🍠if you’re liking what you see, 🌚 join my p@treon for stickers and prints of my artwork mailed to you each month! 🍠🍠

#blackartist #blackart #jewishart #buddhistart #procreate #transformativejustice #prisonabolition #abolition #abolitionist #revolutionaryart
July 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM Everybody can reply
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Art History Animalia
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#FishFriday 🐟:
#Fish - form spice container (Besamim)
Vienna, Austria, 1813
Silver, foil-backed glass
3 1/8 × 13 3/8 × 3 in., 15.872oz. (8 × 34 × 7.6 cm, 450g)
Metropolitan Museum of Art 2025.104 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Judaica #JewishArt
official museum photos, closed and opened side profile views of the silver fish-form spice container “In the Jewish tradition, beautifully crafted spice containers, full of fragrant scents such as cloves, cinnamon, or lavender, are used for the concluding ritual of the Sabbath. The spice container would be passed among the participants to inhale the aroma and animate the spirit. The spice container, known in Hebrew as Besamim, is part of the evening ritual along with a cup of wine and braided candle. This distinctive spice container is in the shape of a three-dimensional fish, whose hinged head lifts to reveal the Ten Commandments designated by Hebrew letters. While this fish form is typically found in the Jewish communities of Austria, Poland, Russia, and Germany, other spice container shapes include bell towers and blossoming flowers. The spice box is one of the most treasured items of domestic Judaica.”
June 28, 2025 at 1:59 AM Everybody can reply
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Miriam Anzovin
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***MERCH DROP*** Shalom friends! Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof—the angel bounty hunters sent to bring down #Lilith, Demon Night Queen, Lilith is represented in the art by her symbolic black owl feathers. From #JewishLoreReactions: The Night Queen #jewishart

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August 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM Everybody can reply
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Ayeola Omolara Kaplan
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So proud of this piece celebrating Jewish liberation and bodily autonomy! Abortion Justice is a Jewish value. We must fight to preserve our rights 💕

#abortion #prochoice #jewish #jewishart #judaism #abortionjustice #reproductivejustice #reproductivefreedom #justice #art #artist #procreate #black
February 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM Everybody can reply
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Hidden Treasures
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This touching painting shows a wife waiting for her husband to return home. The artist is Arnold Daghani, born on 22 February 1909.

Read more about him and his life here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/stories/nani...

#JewishArt #JewishHistory #Archives
Nanino At The Window - Hidden Treasures
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