Sigalit Landau is one of Israel’s most prominent artists. Only two years after her graduation from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, she was selected to exhibit at the Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1997. That same year, her works were shown at Documenta X in Kassel. In 1999, Landau won the OPEN 2000 Competition in London. She lives in Tel Aviv.
Ira Jan created this hagiographical depiction of her lover Chaim Nahman Bialik being anointed by angels as a child shortly before she was deported by Ottoman authorities to Egypt. Her romantic…
Since chairs and beds were valuable items and not found in average homes (people usually sat on the floor and slept on mats), it is possible that terra-cotta models like this one from Lachish…
This tombstone of a Torah scholar from Sieniawa, Poland includes motifs and symbols often found on Jewish tombstones in Poland, such as a crown and palm trees. Other common symbols on Jewish…