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The [bram]ble sent a message to the pomegranate as follows: “Dear Pomegranate, what good are all [your] thorns [to him who tou]ches your [fru]it?” The [pome] granate replied to the bramble, “You are…
Built in the early fifteenth century and rebuilt in 1614 following a fire, the Chendamangalam Synagogue served members of the Malabari Jewish community, descendants of Cochin’s earliest Jews, who are…
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…
The “Cellules,” or Cells, were six tiny all-white living spaces that Absalon planned to install in Tokyo, Paris, Zurich, New York, Tel Aviv, and Frankfurt. He intended to live in them, so they were…
Triple Silver Yentl (My Elvis) is part of what is known as Kass’s Jewish Warhol series, a feminist comment on Andy Warhol’s famous screen prints of celebrities. Kass used the same mass-production…
This photograph of girls at a bat mitzvah was shot by Greenfield for a project about teenagers in Los Angeles. She was interested, she has said, “in how kids in Los Angeles seem to grow up quickly…
Though Nikel’s style of expressionist abstraction has sometimes been characterized as lyrical abstraction, a style associated with Israel’s New Horizons group, she was not formally connected with any…
Simmons is best known for artworks in which she stages dolls, plastic figurines, and other inanimate objects in tableaus and then photographs them. In 1987, she began to use wooden ventriloquists’…
Library is a site in August Bebel Square in Berlin, built on the spot where, in May 1933, thousands of Nazi sympathizers erected a bonfire and burned more than twenty thousand “decadent” books. A pane…
Lavie was a leader of the Tel Aviv School, or 10+ group, artists who were among the first Israeli artists to incorporate pop art, found objects, and collage into their work. In the early 1960s, Lavie…
