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Among Catherine da Costa’s surviving paintings is the full-length portrait of her father, Dr. Fernando Mendes (1647–1724). Mendes was a prominent Jewish physician, who attended both King Charles II…
This ketubah (marriage contract) from Padua, Italy, marks the marriage of Samuel ben Gerson ha-Kohen me-ha-ḥazanim (“of the cantors,” or Cantarini) and Colomba bat David Aziz. The groom was a…
In the seventeenth century, members of the Suasso (Suaço, Suasco) family, bankers originally from Spain, lived in Holland and England. Antonio (Isaac) Lopez Suasso resided in The Hague during the…
Dad III was created for Family Business, photographer Epstein’s multi-media project about his father, William Epstein, and the fall of his family’s furniture store and real-estate business in Holyoke…
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…
Walking in Russia is a large installation that includes 103 handmade paper shoes, the shoemaker’s worktable, maps, textiles with drawings, and miniature house forms. Simon has noted, “This piece grew…
