Mark Podwal is a Brooklyn-born artist, illustrator, author, and physician whose themes reflect Jewish history and traditions. Podwal’s works have appeared on the op-ed pages of the New York Times. He has received two Sidney Taylor Awards from the Association of Jewish Libraries and an Aesop Prize from the American Folklore Society.
Leaving the museum, our small party walked the fifteen minutes out of the center of town it takes to get to the business end of Theresienstadt, the so-called “Small Fortress.” First constructed in the…
Images of this type—with a male figure holding two caprids (probably ibexes) by the horns—are dubbed “master of the animals” and are seen throughout the ancient world. They often represent a female…