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In 2001, Nathanson decided she wanted to explore points of connection between abstract art and Jewish ideas. She and Arnold Eisen (then a professor at Stanford University; later chancellor of the…
Traditionally performed on the afternoon of the first day of Rosh Hashanah, Tashlich is a rite in which Jews symbolically cast away their sins by throwing breadcrumbs into a body of moving water…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’…
A woman named Bella stayed behind to speak to me. Her hair was carefully waved, touched with streaks of blond, her eyes round and blue. She was not one of the shapeless old, but kept waist, hips, and…
