American-born artist Jenifer Bar Lev immigrated to Israel in 1976 and lives in Tel Aviv. She is known for her mixed media works that often incorporate textiles. Her work has appeared in group exhibitions in Israel, Europe, and the United States, and has been the subject of more than a dozen solo exhibitions in Israel.
Before the war Bloyne was a rich and elegant Jewish town: wide streets, a large municipal park, several monuments, many tall buildings, large stores. But when the war came through, the town was…
This maḥzor (holiday prayer book), containing the Jewish prayers according to the Italian rite, was written by the scribe Eliezer ben Abraham of Pisa, for Yema, the widow of Moses of Modena (referred…
The Rema Synagogue, named after the famous rabbi and scholar Moses Isserles (known by the Hebrew acronym “Rema”), was built in 1553 in the city of Kazimierz (today a district of Kraków). It was…