In 1670, Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jewish community commissioned a new synagogue, which, when finished, was the largest in the world. The master mason Elias Bouman (ca. 1636–1686), a non-Jew, who had…
Refugees is very different in style from Josef Herman’s later work. In 1948, the artist disowned his earlier paintings (which he felt were too derivative of Chagall’s paintings) and destroyed most of…
This elaborate Italian kabbalistic manuscript depicts the inner processes of the divine (the sefirot) in the shape of a tree (in Hebrew, ilan), or tree of life. Visualization plays an important part…