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In this detail from a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud, five people stand with raised forearms (their hands are not depicted). As raised hands usually signify praying, the scene may represent…
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…
E. O. W. Nude is considered one of Frank Auerbach’s masterpieces, an example of his distinctive painting style, which focused on the paint itself. The paint surface is thick enough to become almost…
Felix Lembersky’s three Babi Yar paintings were among the first artistic representations of the Nazi massacre in Kyiv, when, over the course of two days in September 1941, over 33,000 Jews were…
Abel Pann devoted much of his artistic career to painting and drawing scenes from the Hebrew Bible. Like other Jewish artists who worked in this genre, such as Ephraim Moses Lilien and Ze’ev Raban, he…
Shterenberg is famous for a series of paintings he did in 1917 and 1918, which are sometimes known as “hungry still lives.” A single object, such as a herring or a loaf of bread, is the focus of the…
Mourning activities, Thebes, Egypt, ca. 1380 BCE. Sitting on the ground and putting dust on the head are expressions of mourning, as in this mural showing a widow with the mummy of her husband…
Moses and Aaron with the Ten Commandments was painted by Aron de Chavez, a painter and engraver of Dutch origin, for the synagogue in Creechurch Lane (the first post-medieval synagogue in London) used…
Don Francisco (Abraham Israel) Lopes Suasso (ca. 1657–1710) was a prominent financier of Portuguese Jewish heritage. In 1688, he lent Prince William of Orange two million guilders, enabling him to…
Don Francisco (Abraham Israel) Lopes Suasso (ca. 1657–1710), a prominent financier of Portuguese Jewish heritage, had ten children with his second wife, Leonora (Rachel) da Costa (1669–1749). This…
