Obj. ID: 28799
Modern Jewish Art  Inger, Reb Yainkil and his pupil Lemech talking in the Lashewitz "academy" (yeshiva). Illustration for "Cabbalists" by I.L.Peretz

The picture represents Reb Yainkil and his pupil Lemech while talking in the yeshiva. There is a big volume on the long table in the central part of the foreground. Reb Yainkil is an old, thin Jew, with a long, pointed beard and old, extinguished eye, the left of the table. His pupil, sitting to the right, is a young man, thin, tall and pale, with black, curling ear-locks, dark, glowing eyes, heavily-ringed, dry lips, quivering throat. They both have garments open at the breast, with out shirts. the left hand of a pupil on the volume. In the backround there are two candles and open book on the table and the window behind the Reb's back.