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An artist with political and social axes to grind, Garbuz created two images from acrylic, pencils, and spray paint on plywood with the title Bad Waters. Three different scenes are portrayed in this…
Ida Rubinstein, volunteering as a nurse in France during World War I, in a uniform specially designed for her by Leon Bakst. Dancer, actress, and patron of the arts Ida Rubinstein was born into a…
One Who Is Rebellious:To obey commandments of which merely the ear is aware,Yet remain deaf to urges that shake the whole being;To regard as good the former,Which reveal the soul so as to abandon it…
23 October. The actors convince me by their presence time and again, to my consternation, that most of what I’ve written about them so far is wrong. It is wrong because I wrote about them with…
This impressive cut-paper birth amulet is in the form of the double eagle, the symbol of the Habsburg Monarchy (and pre-partition Poland) and thus a popular motif in Galician Jewish folk art. It is…
This is an early printed amulet from Tunis, containing texts and symbols commonly used on such talismans printed in North Africa. However, this example is somewhat unusual, as the Shir le-ma‘alot psal…
This sumptuous velvet and gilt-metal-thread embroidered Torah ark curtain most likely began its life as the wedding gown of a well-to-do Jewish woman of the Ottoman Empire. It was unstitched and…
This card for Rosh Hashanah plays on the common Jewish experience of immigration to the United States to offer the traditional New Year’s wishes of long life, health, happiness, and success. Framing…
This postcard was printed by the Bund to commemorate the death of a worker, Kagan (Kohen), who was arrested in Mozir (today, Mazyr, Belarus) in the midst of one of the numerous protests against the…
Cover of the first issue of La vida nuestra (Our Life), a monthly Jewish culture journal published in Buenos Aires, Argentina, between 1917 and 1923. The typography used for the periodical’s title…
