The work of Israeli artist David Wakstein has appeared in exhibitions in Israel and New York, including solo exhibitions at the Israel Museum (1991) and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2003). Wakstein is a founder of the art workshop in Yavne and has been active in community art and art education in disadvantaged communities.
In this caricature, which appeared in the June 6, 1988, issue of the New York Review of Books during the first Palestinian intifada, David Levine depicts Yitzhak Shamir (1915–2012), the seventh prime…
The Kadavumbagam Synagogue received its name (which means “by the side of the landing place”) from its peripheral location at the border of the Cochin Jewish neighborhood, where it served the Malabari…
In the nineteenth century, especially in the era before photography, it was common for artists to travel to exotic or picturesque locations in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, and to produce…