Tombstone of Isaac ben Hayyim

This Persian carpet, manufactured between 1600 and 1630, was later used for a reader’s desk and desk cover in the Portuguese Synagogue in The Hague, Netherlands.

Israel Paldi was a member of the Land of Israel movement, a group of post-impressionist artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the conventions of the Bezalel School. Some, like Paldi, became well-known…

This small hand, carved in stone with downward-pointing fingers, was probably apotropaic—that is, meant to protect the person buried in the tomb where it was found. It was carved on a wall between the…