Born in Detroit, Michigan, artist Ken Aptekar is best known for works that combine new versions of historical paintings with text. His works have been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and The New Museum, New York. Aptekar has received two National Endowment in the Arts fellowships, a Rockefeller Residency at Bellagio, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. He lives in Paris and New York.
In those days, but especially since the year 1740, when Frederick the Great ascended the throne, various social circles in Berlin began zealously to acquire intellectual knowledge. Even among…
Lot (puru), Assyria, 8th century BCE. The inscription identifies this as a lot (puru—the Akkadian form of Hebrew pur, the word used in Esther 3:7) that belonged to an Assyrian official named Yahalu…
The purpose of this book is to bring into focus the vast number and wide variety of data concerning Judaism and the Jews, so that they can be seen in relation to one another and to the…