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Maurycy Gottlieb's iconic painting 'Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur' escaped Nazi Europe and became a cornerstone of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Like a dream, a vision, a greeting from a past they had given up on ever seeing again – that is surely how the small staff of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art felt in May 1939 when notice finally arrived that a large package had reached the port by ship. For ten nerve-wracking months they had waited, unsure whether it would arrive at all.
