City Square and Gatehouse, Beersheba

Photograph of brick building exterior with skywalks over a smaller building below with a metal and glass roof and a tall monolith in the background.

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

Freed deliberately designed the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to create a sense of disorientation and alienation, even terror, in keeping with the museum’s subject matter. Though it is not based on a…

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Partially unraveled scroll with Hebrew text in rounded columns and decorative border and individual page next to it with Hebrew text and circular border.

Esther Scroll

The Book of Esther (also known as the Scroll [megillah] of Esther) is read out loud on the holiday of Purim. This example of an illustrated scroll from the Netherlands (shown here with a page of…

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Bronze amulet of head with human and animal features and loop on top.

Amulet in the Shape of the Demon Pazuzu

The Mesopotamian demon Pazuzu, depicted here in a combination of human and animal features, was invoked to prevent the malicious actions of the demon Lamashtu, who was believed to endanger newborn…

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