Rabbinic Ordination Certificate

Joseph ben Issachar Süsskind Oppenheimer was a financier and court Jew who served as adviser to Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg. Economic reforms enacted by Karl Alexander (and informed by…

Grids and parallel lines are dominant features in Kupferman’s paintings and drawings. They provided a structure to which he added layers of paint or graphite and then repeatedly removed and reapplied…

This Torah ark, installed in a synagogue in the Italian town of Urbino, is a fine example of Renaissance Judaica. Carved from walnut in the early sixteenth century, the ark belonged to the Sephardic…