Sculptor Ilan Averbuch was born in Tel Aviv and lives in New York. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States, Europe, Israel, India, and Canada. Averbuch’s monumental indoor and outdoor sculptures are often made of common construction materials such as stone, wood, metal, and glass, and have architectural, archaeological, and biblical themes. In 2008, the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York commissioned him to create several large sculptures to celebrate the opening of its new gallery.
The span of time to be discussed here comprises what are popularly termed the biblical period and the Second Temple period. The biblical period is held to begin somewhere within the second millennium…
Tombstone of Shifra Tamari (d. 1565), Padua, Italy. In the early modern period, most Jewish tombstones in Italy were Italian Renaissance in style. Hebrew epitaph poems, like the one on this gravestone…
To assess as commendable the courageous and spectacular life-saving mission implemented recently by Israeli commandos in Uganda would be to understate the case badly. The matchless daring and…