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Dark-faced foreigners have flooded the city. They go about rushing through the boulevards, but in the suburbs they already stop to congregate, talk in a strong and loud voice, heavily gesticulating. I…
Dear Friend,You asked me in your last letter to write about America, what kind of country it is and what life is like here. I had to smile as I read your words. [ . . . ]In order to describe America…
City gate, Gezer, Early Iron Age (1200–980 BCE). This gatehouse complex had benches for participants in legal procedures and other public affairs. In the book of Ruth, Boaz goes to the city gate in…
Ishtar Gate and processional avenue, Babylon. This scale model in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin shows the splendor of the city in the days of the prophet—or prophets—whose words are preserved in…
City plan incised on clay tablet, Babylonia. The command in Ezekiel 4:1 to “incise Jerusalem” on a brick may have meant to incise a map of it, like this map of the Babylonian city Nippur (near where…
The Arad sanctuary today exists in ruins (image on left), and scholars have attempted its reconstruction (right). The sanctuary included a building with a broad hall approximately 35 feet (10.5 m)…
This hand-colored mezzotint depicts a street peddler selling sewing supplies and other dry goods in London. A growing number of Moroccan Muslim and Jewish traders came to England in the late…
This receipt with ornate Hebrew calligraphy was issued to certify a donation by members of Ferrara’s Jewish community to aid Jews in Jerusalem. The funds were solicited by the rabbi of a yeshiva in…
The Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, is home to the second-oldest congregation in the United States. As Sephardic Jews began emigrating from the Caribbean to colonial America in the…
Camille Pissarro painted landscapes that, unusually for the time, included industrial elements, like this sugar-beet factory near Pissarro’s home in Pontoise. Like other impressionist paintings, this…
