Romanian-born artist Philip Rantzer immigrated to Israel in 1960. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in Israel, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Romania, and he represented Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1999. Since 1988, Rantzer has served as a professor in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Haifa.
Together with many others we emigrated from Kraków to the great city of Vienna. It is already ten weeks since we relocated here. We withstood many troubles. For nearly two weeks we simply wandered in…
Rabbi Abraham Bloch was a French army chaplain, killed in 1914 while holding a crucifix for a dying Catholic soldier. In 1934 the French government erected a monument in his memory at the spot where…
Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868) achieved celebrity first as an actress, later gaining some literary following for her poetry. Uncertainty surrounds Menken’s family history, as she claimed various…