New York City-born artist Jill Nathanson has been exhibiting her work since 1981, both in solo shows and group exhibitions. Her paintings can be found in many private and public collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art and Tufts University. In addition to Seeing Sinai, Nathanson has created another biblical commentary in paint, New Translations, a meditation on Genesis 1.
The situation of Jews in the Soviet Union may well be the greatest of all the great wonders of the world. The history of Jews in tsarist Russia has been centuries of darkness…
This Haggadah, decorated in the Ashkenazic tradition, was copied in northern Italy. As is traditional for Ashkenazic Haggadahs, illustrations appear in the margins and frame the text. At the top left…
Walking in Russia is a large installation that includes 103 handmade paper shoes, the shoemaker’s worktable, maps, textiles with drawings, and miniature house forms. Simon has noted, “This piece grew…