Ben Shahn was a radical artist — why didn’t he want to be called a Jewish one?
A new retrospective at the Jewish Museum finds an artist whose Jewish identity was linked to a questioning crusade for justice
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Art Why Queen Esther was the star in the age of Rembrandt’s Amsterdam
The figure from the Hebrew Bible was adopted as a figure of national self-determination in the Netherlands
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Culture This ancient archeological marvel celebrates the defeat of King David — does it prove he existed?
The Tel Dan stele, currently on display at the Jewish Museum, is the oldest non-biblical mention of the House of David.
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News Poland’s Jewish museum marks its first decade, made tumultuous by politics
The Polin Museum sought to tell the story of the country’s Jews even as a right-wing government sought to stifle discussions of antisemitism and complicity
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Art A ‘Jewish Mona Lisa’ — and other myths told by objects found in Israel
In Ilit Azoulay's exhibit at the Jewish Museum, there's more to an object than what meets the eye
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Art ‘I have my own planet’: An Argentine Jewish artist makes a psychedelic, exuberant US debut
The Jewish Museum’s latest exhibit, ‘Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte!,’ is a joyful survey of a 1960s icon
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Fast Forward New York’s Jewish Museum taps former Israel Museum head James Snyder as its next director
Snyder could steer the museum into new territory by taking on current issues like antisemitism, a departure from its tradition as a center for art and culture
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Opinion The Jewish Museum profiled the 19th-century version of the Sacklers — and glossed over the devastation they caused
The wealthy Jewish Sassoon family derived the majority of their wealth from the opium trade
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