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Tikkun Ha-Olam (Repair of the World) is from Benjamin’s Finding Home series, in which the Bombay-born Jewish artist raises questions about what and where “home” is, while addressing issues such as…
This calligraphic print appears in Ben Shahn’s book Alphabet of Creation, based on a tale about how God created the world through the letters of the Hebrew alphabet taken from the Zohar, a thirteenth…
Tomb of an Israeli Soldier I was one of a series of works painted by Michail Grobman at a time when any sympathetic gesture toward Israel was, for Soviet Jews, an act of defiance. Grobman’s very style…
In 2001, Nathanson decided she wanted to explore points of connection between abstract art and Jewish ideas. She and Arnold Eisen (then a professor at Stanford University; later chancellor of the…
Jacob’s Ladder, painted by Grobman after immigrating to Israel, continues the artistic approach he formulated in the 1960s in the Soviet Union—i.e., “magical symbolism,” which used mystical imagery…
Bruskin explored the intersection of his Jewish and Soviet identities in art that took the Soviet Union’s obsession with iconography and slogans in a different and subversive direction. In a series of…
