Born in Tel Aviv, Israeli photographer Barry Frydlender is known for his large prints composed of dozens or even hundreds of individual shots assembled on a computer. Solo exhibitions of his work have been organized in Israel, the United States, France, England, and Greece. He is the recipient of the Gerard Levy Prize, Israel Museum (1985) and the Leon Constantiner Photography Prize (2001).
The philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831–1896) was the leading benefactor of world Jewry in his time. He established the Baron de Hirsch Fund to assist immigrants to the United States and…
This is the frontispiece to the first volume of Blasio Ugolino’s Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum, a thirty-four-volume collection of Latin treatises on Jewish customs, laws, institutions, and sacred…
At first Berka had avoided Hershl, but the latter persisted in his visits to Berka’s workshop, ignoring his deliberate rudeness. While Hershl spoke to him Berka hammered away at his last in silence…