Ewer and Basin

Watch-like device with concentric circles, inner geometric shapes and hands.

Astrolabe

This astrolabe, an astronomical instrument, from the sixteenth century is inscribed in Hebrew characters.

Lithograph on paper of building on the left and a large bird grabbing a stick of fire with beak, with Yiddish text along top of image and Aramaic on bottom.

The Fire Came and Burnt the Stick

This graphic depiction of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Tale of a Goat”) juxtaposes the collective memory of the exodus from Egypt with Soviet revolutionary art and politics.

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Drawing of six figures sitting at the far side of a set table and a peacock on the near side.

Peacock Thanksgiving

An imaginary Thanksgiving dinner attended by the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty, George Washington, a Halloween witch, and a strutting peacock. A version of this…

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