Joshua Borkovsky is an Israeli artist whose paintings and photographs often feature phantasmagoric imagery. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in galleries in Israel and New York, and he has participated in group shows, including the Paris (1982),Venice (1986), and São Paolo Biennales (1991). Borkovsky lives in Jerusalem and is a professor at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and in the art department at the Hebrew University.
My grandfather stood six feet three in his worn-out bedroom slippers. He had a long grey beard with streaks of white running through it. When he prayed, his voice boomed like a choir as he turned the…
This Haggadah from Venice was commissioned by Moses ben Gerson Parenzo, the last of the Parenzo Hebrew printers, and issued at the Caleoni press on behalf of the Bragadini family. This page shows the…
Before the war Bloyne was a rich and elegant Jewish town: wide streets, a large municipal park, several monuments, many tall buildings, large stores. But when the war came through, the town was…