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Mikhail Trakhman was one of several Soviet photographers dropped behind enemy lines by Sovinformburo, the main Soviet agency for the distribution of war-related information, to report on partisans who…
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…
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…
The Christian parable of the prodigal son, from Luke 15:11–12, was a favorite subject of artists from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century. A son squanders his inheritance and is reduced to…
This tombstone for Menahem Ventura, son of Abraham Ventura, is one of only four that have survived from the Jewish cemetery in Bologna. (After the entire Jewish community was expelled from this town…
This candle reflector is made of repoussé brass, engraved and punched. The three candle holders are set into a frame decorated with flowers and leaves.
According to the Hebrew inscription, this silk velvet, gilt silver-thread embroidery and silk brocade Torah wrapper was donated in 1727 or 1728 to the Scola Castigliana (a synagogue founded by Jews of…
Sifre ‘evronot—manuals for calculating the Jewish calendar, including leap years and holidays—were a popular genre of Ashkenazic illustrated manuscripts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…
Dad Runs Away with the Circus was Etgar Keret's first children's book. It was illustrated by award-winning illustrator and comic book artist Rutu Modan. The two collaborated on several projects…
For her book Florida Family Portrait, Gelles photographed her family in the same pose over twenty years during trips to visit her parents in Florida. A comment on family, growth, aging, death, and the…
