A Jew in Germany

Michael David

1993

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Michael David

b. 1954

The work of Nevada-born artist Michael David is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He is known for his abstract work, but since the 1990s he has also experimented with photography and representational painting. David received a Guggenheim Fellowship and several grants from the Edward Albee Foundation. He lives in New York.

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The History of Jewish Education and Culture in France and Germany from the Expulsion of French Jewry to the Enlightenment

The behavior of the Jews in most places generally follows the behavior of the [local] Christians—(Sefer ḥasidim [Book of the Pious, 13th century] § 1106) The present volume is a continuation…

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Painting of monks standing around slumped-down, pale figure.

The Death of Tasso

One of Friedrich Friedländer’s best-known paintings, The Death of Tasso, depicts the death of the Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544–1595). Tasso was famous for his epic poem, La Gerusalemme liberate (…

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The Mystical Autobiography of a Sephardic Woman from Salonika

One afternoon a friend from class asked me a religious question. After I answered her, she remarked that it was curious that our teacher had not been able to answer the same question. “Don’t be so…

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A Jew in Germany

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