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Antiochus IV on Seleucid Coin, 175 to 164 BCE. The apocalyptic visions in chapters 7 to 12 of the book of Daniel are presented as prophecies to the figure of Daniel, who was in service to the kings of…
Hybrid creatures with four wings supporting deity in Persian seal impression, 6th or 5th century BCE. Biblical imagery and ancient Near Eastern iconography offer some parallels to the creatures…
Six million perished not because of a cataclysm of nature, as is evoked by use of that inadequate term “holocaust”; they died not because they lacked courage, but because they lacked the minimum…
This building, photographed by Liselotte Grschebina, is one of approximately four thousand Bauhaus-style buildings constructed in Tel Aviv, the most of any city in the world. The Nazi Party’s rise to…
Its multiple (seven) spouts and pedestal make this lamp from the sanctuary area of Tel Dan unusual. Lamps like this could be as tall as 9 inches (23 cm) and as wide as 6.7 inches (17 cm) in diameter…
When Drohobycz (present-day Ukraine) was occupied by the Nazis, Bruno Schulz was initially spared the fate of other Jews in his hometown. Because of his fame as a writer and artist, he was kept alive…
To ward off depression while living as a refugee in France, Charlotte Salomon began telling the story of her life in the form of a drama, in hundreds of gouache paintings. This painting depicts her…
These fragments of a mural from Kuntillet Ajrud show two human heads, facing left and looking out over their city’s wall, which is flanked by towers. The mural may have been part of a military scene…
Emmanuel Evzerichin was one of several Soviet Jewish photographers who documented the battle of Stalingrad. Many of his photographs were unusual in that they focused not on combat, but on the effects…
Jacques Lipchitz created The Prayer in 1943 to express his horror over the mass murder of Jews, which was then underway in Europe, reportedly crying as he made the statue. The central figure in The…
