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Raban was known as a designer, painter, and book illustrator but also designed at least two posters, including this one for the Society for the Promotion of Travel in the Holy Land. The poster’s…
In late 1897, Camille Pissarro, the noted impressionist artist, known for his many landscapes and cityscapes, came to Paris and rented a room in the Hôtel du Louvre, which gave him a good view of the…
Borkovsky has said that he prefers to think of his work in terms of “cycles” rather than “series.” One group of artworks from the 1980s and 1990s, from which this work is drawn, is sometimes called…
This dictionary of maritime terms, a hand-written manuscript, includes definitions in Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.
This was the first printed map of the land of Israel in Hebrew. It was based on an earlier map by a Christian, Kruik van Adrichem, but Jacob Tsaddik removed the illustrations of the life of Jesus that…
This astrolabe, an astronomical instrument, from the sixteenth century is inscribed in Hebrew characters.
The Steerage is considered Alfred Stieglitz’s masterpiece. It marks a departure from the painterly approach he had previously championed in favor of paying more attention to forms, a reflection of his…
This is the second version of First Class: The Meeting—And at First Meeting Loved painted by Abraham Solomon. A young man in naval uniform talks with an older man and a young woman, who sits near the…
Mark Markov-Grinberg took this atmospheric nighttime photograph after he lost his job at the Russian news agency TASS, during the Soviet campaign against Jews. He and other former Jewish…
This map showing the Naḥmanides Synagogue in Jerusalem, named after the medieval rabbi, was made in Italy by a Jewish scribe and is an example of a “pilgrimage scroll.” Pilgrimage scrolls were known…
