Norman Nodel, the son of an Orthodox rabbi, worked at Classics Illustrated, drawing illustrations for comic book adaptations of classic novels. What well-known Jewish children’s picture book, featuring two brothers arguing over their shared bedroom, did he also draw the illustrations for?

Which Russian-French Jewish artist, best known for his paintings of shtetl residents flying through the air, painted this picture?

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Al Jafee, a cartoonist who retired in 2020 at the age of 99, drew which well-known, trench coat-clad cartoon character for The Moshiach Times for over 30 years?

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Which Russian Jewish photographer is best known for his collection “A Vanished World,” featuring pictures of Eastern European shtetlach taken in the 1930s?

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Which shtreimel-wearing musician wrote and rapped the song that features the following lines:

“For now I’m learning patience,

The neshama inside is filled with many places.”

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The Raksin Family Tehillim pairs perakim with stories and explanations of commentaries curated by our general studies administrator, Leah-Perl Shollar. Which well-known Jewish artist, who attended the Rhode Island School of Design, drew the illustrations? 

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Which well-known Jewish singer is this? Born in Ukraine in 1882, his services as a chazzan were so in demand that he toured the United States, leading davening at multiple different shuls. He was so famous that he even met President Coolidge and was given a singing role in the first ever “talking picture,” The Jazz Singer.

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The text on this illustration reads, “Iz gekumen dos fayer un farbrent dem shtekn.” What cumulative Aramaic song, first appearing in 1590 and still sung on its associated holiday today, is it depicting?

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Which famous Jewish singer, better known by his patronymic, was actually born with the last name “Werdyger”?

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Finish the lyrics:

“Don’t hide from me,

Though I know _____ _____ ____ ________ _______ ______________.”

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The poet and actor Avraham Goldfaden wrote several operettas depicting moments from Jewish history. This one, subtitled “The Last Days of Yerushalayim,” had which revolutionary figure, who Rabbi Akiva believed was Moshiach, as its title character?

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The Polish artist, Maurycy Gottlieb, painted this picture in 1878. Which of the Yamim Nora’im does it depict? 

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Dancing chassidim, flying carriages, and davening with dveykus; which Chabad painter is famed for his depictions of life as a Lubavitcher chossid?

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The German-Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote an oratorio about events from the life of which figure from Nevi’im? The events include the resurrection of a dead child, the title character being persecuted by the queen, Izevel, and his prayers bringing rain to Israel. 

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