Tzvi Hirsch ben Jacob Ashkenazi (ca. 1660–1718) was a talmudist and community leader from Moravia. Also known as the Ḥakham Tzvi, a Sephardic scholarly title he is thought to have received from the…
In the ancient Near East, images of paired lions served as guardians at building entrances and on furniture, where these two figurines from Samaria were presumably placed. According to 1 Kings 10:19…
By the mid-1920s, Zadkine had shifted from a purely cubist style to a new approach that drew on African and classical Greek art. His subject matter was often inspired by stories from the Bible and…