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Jews and Judaism in art

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A Judensau (German for "Jews' sow") is a folk art image of Jews in obscene contact with a large sow (female pig), which in Judaism is an unclean animal. These first appeared in the 13th century in Germany and some other European countries, and remained popular for over 600 years.

Jewess with Oranges

painting by Aleksander Gierymski, Nationalmuseum Warschau

Ecclesia and Synagoga

pair of the personifications of the Christian and Jewish religion

painting by John Collier

The Eternal Jew

stereotypical genre

The Jewish Cemetery

painting by Jacob van Ruisdael in the Detroit Institute of Arts

Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue

public artwork in Warsaw, Poland

Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur

painting by Maurycy Gottlieb

Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century

cycle of paintings by Andy Warhol