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Through March 5. "Linear Graces...(and Disgraces): Drawings from the Courts of Persia, Turkey, and India," the second half of a two-part exhibition, is drawn from the Museum's holdings and from private collections of drawings by master artists of Iran, Turkey, and India...
Through March 5. "Linear Graces...(and Disgraces): Drawings from the Courts of Persia, Turkey, and India." The second half of a two-part exhibition, is drawn from the Museum's holdings and from private collections of drawings by master artists of Iran, Turkey and India...
...regrowth of Judaism is not unprecedented. The Jews of Persia survived the violence under the regime of Ahasuerus, the Jews of Europe outlasted the Inquisition, and pogroms failed to wipe out the Jews of the Russian Empire. Yet cruel as generations of persecutions were, all stopped short of the Nazi attempt at genocide. There were 8.3 million Jews in Eastern and Central Europe before the rise of Hitler. Some 450,000 fled the Nazis before World War II. More than 5 million died in the Holocaust. After the war a few hundred thousand of the survivors left immediately for Israel...
Lessing, best known for The Golden Notebook and the semi-autobiographical series The Children of Violence, was born in Persia of British parents. Her mother was a nurse, her father a World War I amputee who gained more his wife's pity than her love. Doris was called Tigger after the Winnie-the-Pooh character -- the whole family had A.A. Milne nicknames -- because she was a "healthy bouncy beast." When she was five, the family moved to Southern Rhodesia, hearts set on the wealth to be had in farming and mining. But a crippled man could hardly tame the bush...
...earth. By the year 1914, 84% of the world's land surface, apart from the polar regions, was under either a European flag or that of a former European colony. Of the nine nominally independent non- Western nations, Bhutan and Ethiopia were politically insignificant; Afghanistan, China, Siam, Nepal, Persia and the Ottoman Empire were under varying degrees of thrall to Western powers; only Japan was truly autonomous...