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Yehudah Pen painted this self-portrait shortly after opening the School of Drawing and Painting in Vitebsk, which over the twenty years of its existence attracted hundreds of young men and women…
The Day after the Pogrom was painted shortly after the Kishinev pogrom, in which forty-nine Jews were murdered, more than 500 injured, many Jewish women raped, 700 houses ransacked and destroyed, 600…
Digital Image © Tate, London 2018.
The title of this etching comes from the inscription that appears on the lower left. The picture depicts a Hasidic Jew in Jerusalem praying at the Western Wall, the remnant of the Second Temple that…
This drawing of a gathering hosted by Dr. Hermann Adler, the chief rabbi of Great Britain (wearing a yarmulke and standing at right), represents the adaptation of the British custom of high tea to the…
Self-Portrait with Candles is a rare example of a work with a Jewish theme by Lily Delissa Joseph. Here she has painted herself holding two Sabbath candles. Her head is covered, as is traditional for…
In The Turkish Family, the term Turkish is likely a placeholder for a portrait of a modern Sephardic Jewish family like that of the artist. Notably, the family members wear modern European fashions…
We have strayed off the path, missed the mark.
We address the Parent of the Universe,
the Majesty of Life.
There is no other.
We pray for renewal this year,
that harsh decrees be annulled,
that…
Kinyan, or symbolic acquisition of the partnership, is the third traditional element of partnership law embodied in the b’rit ahuvim, and it is fraught with…
Cyrus Cylinder, Babylonia. In the inscription, Cyrus, the king of Persia (reigned 559–530 BCE), declares that he was chosen by Marduk, the god of Babylon, to free its citizens from the tyranny and…
