Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer was educated in the United States, but returned to Mexico in 1956. He is a self-taught photographer whose works have appeared in more than 200 exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide and are part of permanent collections in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Meyer founded two Mexican photography organizations, the Grupo Arte Fotográfico and the Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía, and established the photography Web site ZoneZero, which hosts the work of more than 1,000 photographers. He lectures widely about photography and new technologies.
Rembrandt lived in the part of Amsterdam where the artist’s guild (St. Luke’s Guild) was located; by coincidence, it was home also to a number of Jews. His artworks attest to an interest in the…
This glimpse into an eighteenth-century German Jewish marriage ceremony offers an opportunity to consider how gender roles have changed for this vital ritual.
Kehunat Avraham (The Priesthood of Abraham), published in Venice in 1719, is an interpretation and retelling of sections from the book of Psalms in verse. This portrait of its author, Abraham ben…