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This square altar from Hazor is 12 inches (30 cm) high. The offering surface is recessed, and the upper corners have horns that would have held the offering in place.
Rubin was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the conventions of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. They drew on the ideas…
By the 1920s, the Montparnasse artist Chana Orloff was a popular portrait sculptor, inspired by cubism and classical and “primitive” art. Her flowing, smooth-surfaced sculptures in wood or bronze…
The Russian Revolution initially encouraged a flowering of Jewish cultural activity, lifting restrictions on Jewish publishing. Jewish theater companies experimented with modernist approaches to stage…
The Russian Revolution initially lifted restrictions on Jewish publishing, sparking a burst of creativity among Jewish writers and artists. Jewish theater companies experimented with modernist…
New York exemplifies the precisionist, futurist style favored by Lozowick in the 1920s. Like works by other precisionist artists, this lithograph reduces the elements of a cityscape into simple…
Morpurgo was most interested in documenting everyday life. The photographs he took during his 1927 trip to Palestine portray Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities and focus on coexistence rather…
This modern synagogue in Plauen (in the Saxony region) was one of the few synagogues built in Germany in the economically turbulent years of the Weimar Republic. Jews and non-Jews contributed funds…
This carpet was one of the many decorative objects with biblical themes produced at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. This design features the legendary burial site of the biblical matriarch…
Struck taught at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, where Yemenite Jews were popular subjects. Many new Jewish arrivals in Palestine, interested in creating a Jewish cultural revival, viewed…
