Israeli artist Asaf Ben-Zvi lives in Jerusalem. His work has been the subject of more than a dozen solo exhibitions in Israel. He is the recipient of the Mendel Pundik Prize for Israeli Art (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1989), the Israel Discount Bank Prize (1994), and the Eugen Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Art (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1997).
I have studied the science of leaving
in night’s unbraided sorrows.
Oxen ruminate—the waiting lingers to the final
hour of the city’s vigil—and I honor rituals
from that other night—the rooster…
This poster in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the October revolution of 1917 in Russia calls on all who seek peace, progress, and socialism to support the “first workers’ state,” the Soviet…
Don Francisco (Abraham Israel) Lopes Suasso (ca. 1657–1710), a prominent financier of Portuguese Jewish heritage, had ten children with his second wife, Leonora (Rachel) da Costa (1669–1749). In this…