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The Choice of Paris
Elie Shamir
1988
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Israeli painter and sculptor Elie Shamir studied and later taught at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and at the College of Visual Art in Beersheva. Among the awards he has received are the America-Israel Prize for Culture (1979) and the Israel Education Ministry Prize (2005).
Francis Salvador (Daniel Francisco Salvador, 1685–1754) was born in Amsterdam. He was a relative of Catherine da Costa, the artist who painted his portrait. He was the grandfather of Francis Salvador…
This linen coat with silk-thread embroidery was worn by a Jewish boy in Bukhara (today in Uzbekistan) on the occasion of his bar mitzvah celebration. Jewish economic life in Bukhara was closely tied…