[1] The piece reworked many themes that first occurred in Chagall's more famous artwork White Crucifixion whereby the suffering of Jewish victims of the Holocaust was communicated through the image of Jesus Christ as a Jew.
[2] Jesus is not the central image of this picture, and instead shares the canvas with a large green Torah scroll and angel.
Below this is found a Jew wearing traditional Jewish clothing (and a placard) and a fleeing woman with her child.
[7] Reformed theologian Jürgen Moltmann mentions this painting as being his muse while writing The Crucified God, a book which has been called a Christian theology after Auschwitz: "In front of me hangs Marc Chagall’s picture Crucifixion in Yellow.
And with the crucified Christ there appears the angel with the trumpet and the open roll of the book of life [Rev 14.6].