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Józef Awin’s reconstruction of the synagogue in the Old Cemetery of Lwów/L’viv, featured here, reflects his clean geometricity and appreciation for Galician wooden synagogue architecture. The cemetery…
The wooden synagogue in Kamionka Strumiłowa was built in the late seventeenth century. Its walls were covered in colorful paintings and, as in most wooden synagogues, the bimah occupied a central…
When the Dodge Brothers expanded into full-scale automobile manufacturing on a new campus in Hamtramck, Michigan, in 1910, Albert Kahn designed some of the buildings in what was then a state-of-the…
Jacob Epstein, “Buying a Newspaper,” from Hutchins Hapgood’s The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York. Epstein was best-known for his sculptures, but he also created the…
Marc Chagall’s newspaper vendor, whose pouch holds both Yiddish and Russian newspapers, looks worried. The sky is an alarming red, and the news is not good. The first world war has begun. Chagall…
This scene in a bomb shelter during World War I is characterized by the empathy and intimacy with which many of Amy Julia Drucker’s London paintings were imbued. The children stand out amid the masses…
Art is ultimately tantamount to nature if only we understand it somewhat more broadly and look at man as a natural phenomenon. As the saying goes, no matter how you try to drive nature out through the…
For the critic of the future remains the problem of estimating to what degree residence in America influenced the art of Charles Martin Loeffler and of Leo Ornstein. Patent enough to our own day is…
Conscious of the fact that our national work is of no value as long as there is no measurably large and measurably strong Hebrew workers party in the land of Israel, we have set ourselves the goal of…
Honored colleagues!
One sole consideration persuades me to accept the very high office to which your vote has appointed me, when dwindling forces barely enable the modest duties of teachers and of…