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This sheet by the calligrapher and scribe Iehudah Machabeu presents samples of different “lettering,” including Hebrew (at the top), Arabic, Greek, Castilian, English, French, Italian, and Latin. It…
Why does the name of Orpheus, “the first of the world’s singers,” as Lefranc de Pompignan called him, appear on the title-page of this volume? Because he was not merely “the first singer,”…
Early in his career, Jacob Meyer de Haan (also known as Isaac Meyer de Haan) was known for his Jewish genre paintings. In this one, painted in 1880 while de Haan still resided in the Netherlands, a…
