This watercolor from the Gennadius Library’s Costume Album collection, in Athens, depicts two Jewish women—a widow (left) and a married woman (right)—in the colorful traditional attire of…
The Hebrew inscription on this Torah shield from Vidin, Bulgaria, reads: “Dedicated to the holy congregation of Vidin, may the Lord build it, amen, by individuals from Ada Kalisi, may the Lord sustain…
Weber was one of the few American modernists to paint religious subjects. He painted Sabbath around the time he became associated with a group of American Yiddish writers called Di yunge (The Young…