Tunisian-born artist Ofer Lellouche emigrated from France to Israel in 1966. He is best known for self-portraiture and landscapes, which appear in a variety of media, including painting, etching, sculpture, and performance art. Since the late 1990s, Lellouche has concentrated on sculpture and etching.
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…
The Mesopotamian demon Pazuzu, depicted here in a combination of human and animal features, was invoked to prevent the malicious actions of the demon Lamashtu, who was believed to endanger newborn…
I. W. Loewenbach’s medal commemorating the dedication of the new synagogue in Munich (1826) is among the earliest German synagogue medals. On one side of the medal, one sees the façade of the…