Sources available online now cover all published volumes—including the biblical (through 332 BCE) and early modern to contemporary periods (1500–2005). Sign up here for free access and updates.
Ketubah
Zemah Davidsohn
1863
Image
Please login or register for free access to Posen Library
Ritual slaughterer, cantor, and scribe Zemach Davidsohn was born in Eastern Europe and emigrated to the United States as a teenager, shortly after his marriage at the age of fifteen. He lived in New York and Pennsylvania before eventually settling in Chicago.
In 1903, the paintings of Abel Pann had helped draw attention and international outrage to the Kishinev pogrom. Pann again used his art to document the devastation of Jewish communities in Eastern…
In the early 1980s, Eshel-Gershuni began making what she called “fetishes” or “impossible jewelry,” transferring her skills as a jewelry-maker to sculpture. She combined expensive materials like gold…
This Torah curtain was made in Ankara, Turkey. The motifs of a central menorah and hands making the priestly blessing were common in other Ottoman Jewish ritual folk art. Embroidered verses from the…