The work of Israeli artist Gil Shahar has appeared in exhibitions in Israel, Europe, and the United States, including solo shows at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (1992, 2009) and the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (1998). He has received an America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award (1992) and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2005).
Alas!
Lonely sits the city
Once great with people!
She that was great among nations
Is become like a widow;
The princess among states
Is become a thrall.
Bitterly she weeps in the night…
The process of ritual purification of a dead body, known as taharah, involves careful cleaning of the corpse. Prior to being dressed in a white cotton shroud, the body of the deceased is washed, the…
A song I engraved on the tombstone (matzevet) of my master, my father, may he be remembered for the life of the world to come. The holy seed shall be its stock (matzavtah; Isaiah 6:13), is it not the…