The work of Israeli artist Tel Aviv-born Michal Rovner has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including Against Order? Against Disorder? at the Venice Biennale (2003) and Michal Rovner: The Space Between, a mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2002). In 1978, Rovner co-founded the Camera Obscura Art School in Tel Aviv. She lives in New York.
The Velika Avlija (Old Temple or Synagogue) is the oldest synagogue in Sarajevo. It served the city’s first Jewish community, Sephardim, who began arriving in Sarajevo in the mid-sixteenth century…
The plot of La Juive (The Jewish Woman), an opera in five acts, centered around a romance between a Jewish woman and a Christian man. It was one of the most popular operas of the nineteenth century.
Since chairs and beds were valuable items and not found in average homes (people usually sat on the floor and slept on mats), it is possible that terra-cotta models like this one from Lachish…