Ben Katchor, born in Brooklyn, New York, is a cartoonist. Best known for his strip and radio drama series based on the character Julius Knipl, Katchor teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His works appear in the Forward and the New Yorker. Katchor has received the Isaac Bashevis Singer Prize in Literature, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a MacArthur fellowship.
An old Jew asked me near the Jaffa Gate:
“Is the Saxon Garden still there? The same as ever?
Is there a fountain? At the entrance from Czysta Street
In the old days confectioners had a shop there…
Religion is one of many paintings with Christian themes by Philipp Veit, whose mother wanted him to become a priest. He first painted it as a fresco for the north wing of the Vatican and then created…
In the late 1950s. Marc Chagall began to work on stained-glass windows for the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Each of the twelve windows that were ultimately created for the hospital’s…