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Yemenite Jew
Hermann Struck
1930
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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…
Regarding the first point of the program, I was just given the honorific task to add a few words to its discussion. Although I find it very difficult at present to justify my assessment of this matter…
Sifre ‘evronot—manuals for calculating the Jewish calendar, including leap years and holidays—were a popular genre of Ashkenazic illustrated manuscripts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…