A Boy's Bar Mitzvah Coat from Bukhara

Memoirs

[ . . . ] Let us return to my maternal grandmother, Matte, of blessed memory. After she married off my late aunt Ulk, she was left penniless with the fatherless child my mother, may she live…

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Square ceramic altar with recessed offering surface decorated with crosshatching and circles and horns on four upper corners.

Small Ceramic Altar from Hazor

This square altar from Hazor is 12 inches (30 cm) high. The offering surface is recessed, and the upper corners have horns that would have held the offering in place.

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Painting of woman crying next to man and child amid ruins in foreground, and city in background.

The Day after the Pogrom (Yard in Ruins and Bereaved Family)

The Day after the Pogrom was painted shortly after the Kishinev pogrom, in which forty-nine Jews were murdered, more than 500 injured, many Jewish women raped, 700 houses ransacked and destroyed, 600…

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A Boy's Bar Mitzvah Coat from Bukhara

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