It is customary for Jews to ritually wash their hands before eating bread. This ewer and basin, from Turkey, were used by the Benguiat family, a large and prominent Sephardic family in the Ottoman…
The range of my movement between “here” and “there” was supported by imagination and sustained by difference. In going to a women’s seminary, I remained…
This lacquered, cylindrical case for a Torah scroll was made from a combination of wood, bronze, and iron in Kaifeng, China. (The hard-sided Torah case was a Sephardic tradition. It offered more…