Born in Hungary, Gyula Pap moved with his family at age fourteen to Vienna. He studied art in Vienna and Budapest and metalwork at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture in Weimar from 1920 to 1923. He taught in Berlin from 1926 to 1933. With the rise of the Nazis, he moved to Budapest, where he lived until his death. He worked in several mediums: oil painting, typography, photography, textile design, graphic art, and industrial design.
I found it written somewhere that the eleven offerings brought on Rosh ḥodesh [the New Moon] correspond to the eleven extra days of the solar year over and above those of the…
Kneseth Eliyahoo was endowed in honor of Baghdad-born Eliyahoo (Elias) David Sassoon (1820–1880), son of textile magnate David Sassoon (1792–1864), by Elias’s sons. The synagogue was constructed in…
The three problems that I first asked are explained in regard to all of that which I have said. The first: Why is it called the “Holy Land” and the “Holy Temple”? This is according to the fact that it…