Silver Torah Crown

This watercolor from the Gennadius Library’s Costume Album collection, in Athens, depicts two Jewish women—a widow (left) and a married woman (right)—in the colorful traditional attire of…

In the early 1940s, Adolph Gottlieb created a new style of art, known as “pictographs,” which are grid-like compositions or asymmetrical arrangements of boxes. His subject matter was drawn from…