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.
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…
Portrait of a Man
Though he also worked in other media, Dmitry Borisovitch Lion preferred to work with ink on paper. His drawings have feathery, broken lines, and sometimes include text, illegible letters, and shapes…
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…