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For three years, Lamm was imprisoned in the Gulag (the Soviet system of labor camps) for applying for an exit visa, and he documented this experience in drawings and paintings. The red banner on the…
Disabled from childhood polio, Mizrachi creates sculptures that relate to the physical form of his subjects. His work, as in the Peace Rider, expresses his political position and vision for the future…
This photograph of Jewish men on a Miami beach carrying their prayer books to synagogue on Rosh Hashanah appeared in Nagler and Isaac Bashevis Singer’s 1991 book, My Love Affair with Miami Beach. The…
In 1976, Safdie was appointed by Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority to design a museum at Yad Vashem devoted to the 1.5 million children who were murdered in the Holocaust…
Commissioned to document people in their workplaces by a magazine, Edelstein was inspired to launch a project of photographing workers all over the world. Part of his series focused on shopkeepers…
Kikar Levana is an environmental sculpture in Tel Aviv, located on a hill in Edith Wolfson Park. Commissioned to commemorate the builders of the city, its simple geometrical shapes and white concrete…
This photograph of a courtyard of the Sarajevo Synagogue is included in Serotta’s 1991 book, Out of the Shadows: A Photographic Portrait of Jewish Life in Central Europe, which collected photographs…
In The Table As It Is, a tabletop perched on precarious legs and precariously set with bottles of wines and glasses seems about to split apart. Dominey’s sculptures present ordinary objects found in…
Seura Chaya # 1 is one of many photographs that Wilke made of her mother and herself when they were dying of cancer. The two separate series were a continuation of her use of her art to focus on…
Thus said the Lord:
Cursed is he who trusts in man,
Who makes mere flesh his strength,
And turns his thoughts from the Lord.
He shall be like a bushin the desert,
Which does not sense the coming…
