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The physician and surgeon Issachar Baer Teller received his medical training by studying and practicing with other physicians in Prague. He completed his studies under the guidance of Joseph Solomon…
With you, it is not impossible to define
creatures and things with the simplicity
of the fish whose scales streak the sea with blue and gold,
Or of the sea itself that swells with the gracefulness of…
Rabbi Ezekiel of Kozmir and his followers were great believers in the divine principle of joyousness.
Reb Ezekiel himself was a giant of a man, standing a full head above his Chasidic followers, and…
As you die there in agony, brother,
Don’t be calling your comrades in vain.
Let me warm my hands on your body,
Make good use of the blood from your veins.
Stop crying, stop groaning, don’t be a…
Silence, and a starry night
Frost crackling, fine as sand.
Remember how I taught you
To hold a gun in your hand?
In fur jacket and beret,
Clutching a hand grenade,
A girl whose skin is velvet
Ambus…
Boots was composed of 17,000 pairs of army boots piled up in the gallery. The boots are an obvious reference to soldiers in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), but also evoke the piles of shoes of…
Mark Gertler’s Jewish Family is not meant to be a portrait of a specific Jewish family but is instead an archetype painted in a style that evokes folk art and early Italian painting. The model for the…
By the early twentieth century, many Jewish women in Algeria dressed in European clothing for daily activities. Yet many also continued to dress in their traditional garb for ceremonial and…
This etching of a Jewish woman from Thrace (a region located in present day Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey) is from Livre curieux contenant la naive représentation des habits des femmes des diverses…
And suddenly he lifted his eyes to see,
A stranger approaching the hill with the tree.
He jumped off the branch and hurried below,
Joining the old man who walked on the road.
