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Struck taught at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, where Yemenite Jews were popular subjects. Many new Jewish arrivals in Palestine, interested in creating a Jewish cultural revival, viewed…
The title of this painting, La Kahena, alludes to a seventh-century military Berber queen who opposed the Arab conquest of North Africa. Legend has it that she was Jewish and also a sorceress. The…
This detail appears in a relief from the palace of Sennacherib, king of Assyria (r. 705–681 BCE), in Nineveh depicting the Assyrian conquest of Lachish in 701 BCE. (For the full relief, see "Conquest…
In the late 1950s. Marc Chagall began to work on stained-glass windows for the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Each of the twelve windows that were ultimately created for the hospital’s…
When the Central Synagogue was built on the site of London’s first Ashkenazic synagogue, which had been destroyed by bombing in World War II, David Hillman was commissioned to create twenty-six…
This relief from Sennacherib’s palace shows workers rebuilding Nineveh, harnessed by shoulder straps to ropes by which they haul a large bull colossus toward the palace. Workers from various places…
“Insist on yourself . . .” is from the series Great Ideas of Western Man, an innovative advertising campaign by the Container Corporation of America, which ran from 1950 to 1975. Its mission was to…
Fromet Guggenheim (1737–1812) was the eldest daughter of a merchant from Hamburg. She married the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn in 1762. Exceptional for the time, theirs was not an arranged marriage…
Born in Aldgate, London, bare-knuckled pugilist Daniel Mendoza was the first Jew in England to become heavyweight champion, a title that he defended twice before losing it to John Jackson on a ninth…
This glimpse into an eighteenth-century German Jewish marriage ceremony offers an opportunity to consider how gender roles have changed for this vital ritual.
