Sculptor Michael Gitlin emigrated with his family from South Africa to Israel as a child and has lived in New York City since 1970. Gitlin is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2005) and a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant (1991). His work is found in such collections as the Detroit Institute of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Jewish Museum.
In 1840, thirteen leaders of the Jewish community in Damascus were arrested and imprisoned because of an accusation of ritual murder. Appeals from the local Jewish community reached Jewish communities…
This caricature of Napoleon III (1808–1873), the last monarch of France, was made after the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), when Napoleon was being held in captivity in…
Terra-cotta pillar figurines are found throughout the biblical territory of Judah and date to the eighth to seventh centuries BCE. Most were decorated with a white background layer and one or more…