One of the most celebrated American abstract painters of her generation, Louise Fishman became widely known for her paintings in the 1970s, when, inspired by the feminist movement, she began producing work reflecting traditional women’s crafts, such as knitting and stitching. Fishman is the recipient of several prizes and awards, including a Guggenheim grant and several National Endowment for the Arts grants.
Flags like this, made of paper, decorated, and attached to a stick—sometimes with an apple and a small lit candle atop it—were commonly carried by children during Simḥat Torah celebrations. The…
The image of an ear on this coin may symbolize God as the one who hears prayers, as in passages such as Psalm 34:16, 18, and Psalm 130:2. The image is paralleled on Egyptian stelas that depict…
Moses ben Abraham Pescarol’s illuminated scroll of Esther, completed in Ferrara, constitutes one of the oldest examples of an illustrated manuscript of this biblical book, which is chanted on the…