Educated in architecture in Italy during the 1930s, Romanian-born Saul Steinberg became an extraordinarily popular American artist after World War II through his regularly featured drawings, cartoons, and covers for The New Yorker magazine. Steinberg’s inventive enigmatic modernism found expression in masks, drawings, collages, and watercolors that incorporated letters, text, and self-reflections. He exhibited his work in European and American galleries, in a traveling retrospective that began at the Whitney Museum in 1978 and another that opened at the Morgan Library and Museum. He also published more than a dozen compilations of his drawings, beginning with All in Line (1945) and ending with The Discovery of America (1992).
You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea: You will show faithfulness to Jacob. . . .
—Micah 7:19–20
In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, while I was walking along the…
Isaac Luria , known as “the holy ARI” (an acronym of his name, meaning “lion”), was one of the most significant figures in Jewish mysticism, famed for pioneering a new conception of theoretical…
Louis Mitelberg drew this cartoon in ironic response to a 1967 comment made by French president Charles De Gaulle in the wake of the Six Day War, in which he described the Jewish people (now that they…