Medal from Dedication of the Munich Synagogue in 1826

Page of Aramaic text decorated with miniatures, cherubs, and vines surrounding text, and triangular bottom.

Ketubah (Rome)

This intricately decorated ketubah (marriage contract) marks the marriage of Gabriel ben Hezekiah Amron to Simḥa bat Shabbetai mi-Segni. It is richly decorated with biblical miniatures, including one…

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Abstract painting featuring a large woman being held in the air by an angel, waving her hands over floating table in front of her, with people, houses, and plants floating below her feet.

Sabbath

Gurvich began increasingly to focus his work on his Jewish heritage after his first trip to Israel in 1955. His paintings depict Jewish life and culture in dreamlike imaginary worlds, in a style and…

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Photograph of men standing and sitting in bunks wearing striped shirts and looking at camera. The one closest to the camera holds a Diet Coke.

Self-Portrait at Buchenwald: It’s the Real Thing

In 1993, Schechner digitally inserted himself into a historical photograph of prisoners in a newly liberated bunker at the Buchenwald concentration camp, taken in 1945 by Margaret Bourke-White. He…

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Medal from Dedication of the Munich Synagogue in 1826

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Medal from Dedication of the Munich Synagogue in 1826

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I. W. Loewenbach

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