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Mental Maps depicts mirrored images of a 1938 German railway map made from rubber and pigment. The left panel contains two lines of text that read “North is West” and “[I am imprinting it down…
Tikkun Ha-Olam (Repair of the World) is from Benjamin’s Finding Home series, in which the Bombay-born Jewish artist raises questions about what and where “home” is, while addressing issues such as…
Shachar began to mold and cast human body parts from life early in his career. Here, hands carry the body of a young girl wrapped in a sheet, perhaps alluding to the Virgin Mary supporting the dead…
The Sultan Selim loved the Jews very much, for he realized that with their help he could strike nations and kill mighty kings. [ . . . ] And it came to pass on the third day, when the…
[ . . . ] The Portuguese king, eager to find some logical excuse to vex me, called for an investigation to see if the number…
In the days of Antigonus, in about 3160 of creation, roughly 52 of the second rule of Ptolemy II over…
Nevertheless, I saw from the first that many people would open their mouths wide against me [see Psalms 22:14] and speak arrogantly against me and think it a sin on my part for my having written based…
Behold I request of all standing at the gate to knock,
And he who wishes to enter deep within this composition of mine,
Let him understand and be wise and contemplate the introduction I have composed…
The German holy community of Amsterdam was founded in the year 5396 [1635/6]. This I discovered in a few pages of a book written by Maharam Maarsen, one of the first German Jews in…
After these things, Ahmed Shaitan desired of the Jews a hundred and fifty thousand great gold pieces, and he also said, If ye bring them not quickly, I shall kill you with the sword. And when the Jews…