Janów Sokólski Synagogue

Manuscript page with Hebrew text in a half circle shape with many interior circles and branches, with center illustration of a person with three winged animals and an angel, another illustration on the left of person with a crown, and drawings along the perimeter of the half circle.

Sefirotic Tree

This elaborate Italian kabbalistic manuscript depicts the inner processes of the divine (the sefirot) in the shape of a tree (in Hebrew, ilan), or tree of life. Visualization plays an important part…

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Photograph featuring seven barbers standing in the ocean and cutting hair of seven men floating in front of them.

Former Tajik Barbers with Their Israeli Customers

In 1978, anthropologist Frédéric Brenner began traveling around the world with the aim of creating a visual record of the Jewish diaspora at the end of the twentieth century. Over the course of his…

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Painting of men cutting cloth and women sewing.

Jewish Burial Society: Sewing the Shrouds and The Washing of the Body

Women played key roles in preparing the deceased for burial. This painting shows women’s involvement in the ultimate act of generosity.

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