Meir Pichhadze was born in Soviet Georgia and immigrated to Israel in 1973. He is known for his figurative and abstract paintings, which he created with industrial paint. He had solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Artist’s Studio (1994) and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2003). He was the recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Prize (1982), the Israel Ministry of Education Prize for a Young Artist (1988), and first prize at the Ankara Biennale (1990). Pichhadze lived in Tel Aviv.
This remarkable illustration is at the same time a shiviti—traditionally, a decorative plaque bearing the verse: “I am ever mindful of the Lord’s presence”—and a topographic map of the land of Israel…
The Scuola Italiana is one of five synagogues in the Venetian ghetto, and its smallest. In 1575, the Italian Jewish community established the synagogue in a preexisting building because of a law…
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