Richard Nagler is a San Francisco Bay–based photographer and art promoter. He sponsored the Richard Nagler Competition for Jewish Photography, an annual international competition at the Judah L. Magnes Museum. Nagler has published several books of his photographs, including My Love Affair with Miami Beach, with text by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1991).
This print depicting a service in the synagogue in Fürth is from the beginning of the eighteenth century, a period of prosperity for the city’s Jewish community. There were between 350 and 400 Jewish…
Several stone crenellations, like the one shown in this computer reconstruction, with each of the upper layers shorter and narrower than the one below, were found broken into pieces at the palace at…
A group of people living together under extreme coercive conditions without the conscious intent of forming a community of common fate created forms that were only possible on the basis of the ghetto…