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Chaim Gliksberg was well-known for his portraits of literary figures. Here, he has pictured Itzik Manger, the celebrated Yiddish poet and playwright. Manger was particularly renowned for his modernist…
Ah, you are fair, my darling,
Ah, you are fair.
Your eyes are like doves
Behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
Streaming down Mount Gilead.
Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
Climbi…
Title page of the second edition of a six-language (Hebrew-Aramaic, Persian, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish) dictionary published in Jerusalem in 1908.
Joseph Barsky’s design for the Herzliya Gymnasium, established in 1905 as the first Hebrew high school in Palestine, was adapted from Charles Chipiez’s and Georges Perrot’s understanding of…
In his design for the Merhavia cooperative farm (kibbutz), Alexander Baerwald arranged one-story residential buildings and a two-story main building, used for storage and equipment, around a central…
The Binding of Isaac was painted at a time when Aharon Kahana was developing a new style that favored abstract forms divided by thick lines. His paintings were both an embrace of modern European art…
My beloved is clear-skinned and ruddy,
Preeminent among ten thousand.
His head is finest gold,
His locks are curled
And black as a raven.
His eyes are like doves
By watercourses,
Bathed in milk…
Illustrated folk depiction of the story of Purim by Moshe Mizrachi (Jerusalem: Monsohn, 1902). The top panels depict the villain of the story, Haman, leading the hero Mordechai on a horse and the…
