Sample Sources
The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.
Landscape of Jerusalem
Anna Ticho’s life work was drawing the landscapes of the Judean Mountains and Jerusalem. In the 1950s, she was able more easily to access these landscapes when she bought a house in Motza, a town on…
Hebrew Prayer at the Time of Revolt of the Negroes
This Hebrew prayer, written by the ḥazan of the synagogue in Jodensavanne in Surinam, blesses Jewish troops sent to fight against nearby “Maroon” communities of runaway enslaved people. The ḥazan…
Beauty
Moses Feigin painted both realist and abstract paintings, sometimes mixing both styles in one painting. In the late 1960s, he became fascinated by the world of the carnival, seemingly evoked by the…
Alms Plate
This silver alms plate was likely used to collect donations in a synagogue. In the center is a boat, meant to represent Noah’s ark, a common image on Jewish alms containers. The Hebrew word for…
Deborah at Tante Esther’s
Saul Leiter was known for his photographs of street life in New York City and for his pioneering work in color photography, but he also took more intimate pictures of his family and friends. This…
Poésie de Canaan, I
Moshe Castel was another founding member of the New Horizons art group. In the 1950s, he began mixing paint with basalt rock, sand, and glue for paintings that strove for the fusion of abstract…
Untitled
Though Lea Nikel’s style of expressionist abstraction has sometimes been characterized as lyrical abstraction, a style associated with Israel’s New Horizons group, she was not formally connected with…
Portrait of Hannah Arendt
Alfred Bernheim’s intimate portrait of Hannah Arendt portrays her as casual and self-confident, lounging on a couch and smoking a cigarette. Arendt was one of the most famous intellectuals of the…