The Israeli painter Reuven Rubin was born in an isolated village in Romania. He studied at the newly founded Bezalel School in Jerusalem for a year and then for several years in Paris. After World War I, he lived in Italy, the United States, and Romania. He settled permanently in the Land of Israel in 1922 and became one of its best-known painters. He is most known for his figurative paintings of the life and landscape of the Jewish homeland, which he rendered in an orientalized, idealized manner.
Moses Feigin painted both realist and abstract paintings, sometimes mixing both styles in one painting. In the late 1960s, he became fascinated by the world of the carnival, seemingly evoked by the…
This agate seal with an image of a rooster was found in a Roman-period tomb at Tell en-Nasbeh (Mizpah), but its script dates it to the late seventh or early sixth century BCE. The bottom register…
A calm summer night. On the horizon loom, very black, the famous woods on the tree trunks of which our ancestors are said to have carved a record of the tractates of the Talmud they had…