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In the ancient Near East, images of paired lions served as guardians at building entrances and on furniture, where these two figurines from Samaria were presumably placed. According to 1 Kings 10:19…
This ivory relief bears a common motif, found in ivories from Syria and nearby areas as well: a woman stares straight out from a window set in a triply recessed frame with a balustrade in front. Her…
This leaf-shaped ivory relief from Samaria depicts Horus as a child sitting on a lotus flower. The lotus was a symbol of regeneration, and because, in Egyptian belief, each pharaoh was considered an…
This small sculpture of a pomegranate with a bird (most likely a dove) sitting on top is from the City of David in Jerusalem. The sculpture was probably mounted on a piece of furniture (fragments of…
In designing this synagogue, Alschuler drew on photographs of the remains of a second-century Byzantine synagogue in Tiberias. He wrote that he designed the synagogue “not in sense of slavish…
Traditionally, the prophet Elijah is believed to be present at all Jewish circumcision ceremonies, and a chair is reserved for him. It serves as the seat of the godfather, who holds the baby boy…
Early in his career, Castel often painted pictures of Jews, like these, whose roots were in Arab lands. Many at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, where he studied, believed that Yemenite Jews…
Weissberg was a member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of them Jews from Central and Eastern Europe who had settled in Paris. Weissberg was a well-liked habitué…
Solomon Mikhoels (1890–1948), a Yiddish actor, director of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater (GOSET), and later chair of the Soviet Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, was an iconic figure of Soviet Jewish…
The Aron Schuster Synagogue was built in the expressionist style of the Amsterdam School, a movement that flourished from 1910 to about 1930 and that favored brick construction and copious decoration…
