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Vadim Sidur was sometimes called “the Soviet Henry Moore” because of the similarities between his aesthetic and those of the British artist. In Sidur’s native Soviet Union, however, his work was…
The two maps show the differences in state boundaries before and after World War I. The striking alterations resulted from the dissolution of four empires, the emergence of new states and the…
Bill Gold designed more than one poster for Casablanca, including one featuring Humphrey Bogart wielding a gun. Over his seventy-year career, he designed thousands of movie posters, tailoring the…
Mikhail Trakhman was one of several Soviet photographers dropped behind enemy lines by Sovinformburo, the main Soviet agency for the distribution of war-related information, to report on partisans who…
Mordkhe Spektor [1858–1925] was the “honorary chair” of the “Society of Gluttons and Drunkards.” Though he had not been elected to this “post,” everyone felt that Spektor was the singular candidate…
These are the words that Moses addressed to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan. [ . . . ]
[W]e marched back into the…
After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ attendant:
“My servant Moses is dead. Prepare to cross the Jordan…
When Joshua dismissed the people, the Israelites went to their allotted territories and took possession of the land. The people served the Lord during the lifetime of Joshua and the lifetime of the…
In ascetic silence, in stony skirts,God’s handmaid falls on her face—Flash of an empty night, a forlorn desert waste,Shards of sunset upon the rocks.This land. Trodden, just like this, by a wandering…
Avishai:There’s nothing joyful about the guys who returned from the war. I don’t have the feeling that this is the last time that the people sitting here will put on uniform. Right after the war the…