New York City-born artist Jill Nathanson has been exhibiting her work since 1981, both in solo shows and group exhibitions. Her paintings can be found in many private and public collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art and Tufts University. In addition to Seeing Sinai, Nathanson has created another biblical commentary in paint, New Translations, a meditation on Genesis 1.
Whiteread’s memorial for Austrian Jewish victims of the Holocaust is located in Vienna in a square known as the Judenplatz. Sometimes called the Nameless Library, the steel and concrete structure has…
This prayer book for the Rosh Hashanah festival from Crete is elaborately decorated inside with drawings of animals and people and has a colorful title page. Greek (Romaniote/Byzantine) Jews had lived…
The Meeting, Schulz’s only surviving oil painting, obliquely explores a theme he returned to many times in his writing and art, namely, sadomasochism, this time in the context of an encounter between…