American photographer Judy Gelles has published three books: When We Were Ten (1997), Florida Family Portrait (2002), and Beach Boxes (2004). Her works are found in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and other collections. She received an Individual Artist Grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (1997). She lives in Philadelphia.
You won’t find the restaurant in the guidebooks, which is a pity. The owner—he was tall and wearing a sport jacket—greeted us at the door. Our table was waiting in the corner.
“And the food is quite…
This ketubah (marriage contract), was signed in Bayonne, France, whose Jewish community originated with New Christians from Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth century. It marks the wedding of Isaac…
Three representatives of the Prague Burial Society in the 1730s are pictured in these portraits: Jonas Jeitteles (1735–1806, the community’s official physician), Rabbi Leib Fayvel Dayan (another…