The master etcher Hermann Struck was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Berlin and remained an observant Jew throughout his life. An active Zionist from an early age, he moved to Palestine in 1922 and spent the rest of his life there. He was known for his portraits of European cultural figures and for his landscapes and character studies of traditional Jews, both Ashkenazi and Mizrahi.
The title of this etching comes from the inscription that appears on the lower left. The picture depicts a Hasidic Jew in Jerusalem praying at the Western Wall, the remnant of the Second Temple that…
To Our Brethren and Sisters in the Exile, Peace Be with You!
“If I help not myself, who will help me?”
(Hillel)
Nearly two thousand years have elapsed since, in an evil hour, after an heroic…
In the 1970s, Weisel, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, made a series of abstract paintings inspired by her father’s tattoo from Auschwitz. The central rectangle in this painting resembles a…