Word: judaea
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...picture (12 by 18 feet) and is expected to bring about $100,000. It is called Judaea Capta, or the Triumph of Titus. The painter, Iszo Koves, Hungarian, worked on it for 20 years, and spent 35 years gathering historical data. Then he died during the war, penni- less, leaving a destitute widow and children...
...origin of the Menorah, the seven-branched candle-stick, in the festival described in the Book of Maccabees. He went on to describe the 500 years' struggle between the Hellenic and Hebraic ideals, which culminated in the annihilation of the Jews as a nation after the conquest of Judaea by Titus. Beauty was the Greek ideal, while that of the Hebrews was goodness, and of this the Menorah was emblematic...