Ivory Pomegranate Sculpture with a Bird Sitting on Top

Painting depicting three women seated with buildings and hills behind them, above small set of images including cows and two suns on either side of an eye on left, a woman in triangle surrounded by snakes in center, and a building ruin with owl on right.

The Choice of Paris

Shamir is known for portraits and landscapes that explore Zionist history and his own family story. Many of his paintings are set in Kfar Yehoshua in the Jezreel Valley, a village his family helped to…

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Leather capsule with four indented sections.

Tefillin

In Jewish tradition, the command to “bind them [God’s words] as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead” is understood as requiring passages from the Torah to be written on…

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Glass and stone beaded necklace including three large triangular shaped pendants with stripes, and an irregular shaped pendant.

Necklace of Beads

This necklace of beads is predominantly of orange glass but incorporates stone beads and gold spacers as well. The beads range in shape from bi-conical to cylindrical and also include larger…

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Ivory Pomegranate Sculpture with a Bird Sitting on Top

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