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David’s Room
Jenifer Bar Lev
1992
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American-born artist Jenifer Bar Lev immigrated to Israel in 1976 and lives in Tel Aviv. She is known for her mixed media works that often incorporate textiles. Her work has appeared in group exhibitions in Israel, Europe, and the United States, and has been the subject of more than a dozen solo exhibitions in Israel.
These belled, gilt-silver Torah finials topped with crowns were made in Amsterdam by master silversmith Pieter van Hoven, who lived near the Jewish quarter and is best known for the Jewish ceremonial…
Moses and Aaron with the Ten Commandments was painted by Aron de Chavez, a painter and engraver of Dutch origin, for the synagogue in Creechurch Lane (the first post-medieval synagogue in London) used…
On a day transparent with light
like a landscape by Monet,
my childhood broke away
from a small Jewish town
and glided on ice
blue in the distance—
while a small cloud hovered in me
like a cloud of a…