American-born artist Jenifer Bar Lev immigrated to Israel in 1976 and lives in Tel Aviv. She is known for her mixed media works that often incorporate textiles. Her work has appeared in group exhibitions in Israel, Europe, and the United States, and has been the subject of more than a dozen solo exhibitions in Israel.
This chart displaying the colors of gems and minerals is from A Popular Treatise on Gems and Minerals by Lewis Feuchtwanger, a German Jewish immigrant to the United States, a doctor who was also well…
The woman depicted in Amazone is believed to be Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972), an American writer, lesbian, and feminist who hosted a literary salon in Paris. She was one of several women whom…
The kapporet is a short valance hung over the curtain of the Torah ark that first began to appear in Eastern Europe in the late seventeenth century. The griffins and crowns that appear on this kappore…