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Around the time of his move to Amsterdam, the Dutch painter Emanuel de Witte began to produce architectural paintings, particularly of church interiors and other grand buildings. He was interested in…
Born in Livorno, Tuscany, in 1656, Hezekiah ben David de Silva was a scholar best known for his halakhic work Peri ḥadash (New Fruit). De Silva studied in Syria and later headed a yeshiva in Jerusalem…
Samson Wertheimer (1658–1724) occupied a number of prominent roles, including court Jew, Austrian financier, and chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia. This portrait was painted around the time when he…
Don Antonio Lopes Suasso (1614–1685) was born in Bordeaux, one of ten children born to New Christian parents of Portuguese Jewish origin. Apparently, his parents intended for Antonio to enter the…
The Only Corner illustrates Yaker’s ability to depict nature in its varied beauty and to express cultural meaning in his work. The same year he exhibited this painting, Yaker showed a series of works…
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…
Years ago, Sujo wrote that the artist is “history’s caretaker,” and that he wished to show “the diversity of drawing as a record of lived experience.” Much of his artistic career has been devoted to…
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…
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…
