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Culture He painted like nobody else — so why haven’t more people heard of Sam Szafran?
The self-taught son of Polish Jewish immigrants is now the subject of a major retrospective in Paris
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Art Indisputably, a Jewish genius — but also a pariah and a bumpkin
Steve Stern's 'The Village Idiot' fictionalizes the life of the Belarusian painter Chaim Soutine
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Art Was Morris Hirshfield’s Jewishness responsible for his fall from grace in the art world?
A new retrospective on the surrealist artist grapples with his obscurity after a dazzling debut embraced by Picasso, Duchamp and Peggy Guggenheim
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Art A risk-taking photographer who addressed his own suffering by documenting the sufferings of others
David 'Chim' Seymour captured images of refugee children, as well as Audrey Hepburn and Gina Lollobrigida
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News A Long Island synagogue’s renovations uncover a massive work of art
At the High Holidays, many Merrick Jewish Centre congregants will get a first look at a forgotten treasure
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Culture What’s a Christian unicorn like that doing in a Jewish marriage contract like this?
A new exhibit about the Jews of Corfu offers some surprising insights into Jewish art and practices
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Art How come you’ve never heard of these Jewish artists?
This exhibition says it’s partly because they’re women
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Art The Nazis recorded everything they stole. One artist is mining their archives for something new.
Lisa Oppenheim’s solo exhibition inverts Nazi archival photos to make the absence of stolen objects and stolen lives feel tangible
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