text: While Soutine--unlike Chagall , to whom he is sometimes compared--did not paint stereotypically Jewish subjects , he may have been alluding , with those dangling fowl , to a Yom Kippur rite in which a slaughtered chicken was whirled around a rabbi 's head in a ritual of absolution .
  
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  Soutine and Chagall are artists who created paintings .