Atlanta-born sculptor and painter Luise Kaish is known especially for her bronze and steel sculptures. Among her many honors and awards are a Tiffany Foundation grant (1951), a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship (1959), and a Rome Prize fellowship from the American Academy in Rome (1970). Kaish’s work included commissions from synagogues and churches, including arks and ark doors. She is a professor emerita of sculpture at Columbia University.
In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, when I was in the community of exiles by the Chebar Canal, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God. On the fifth day of the month—it…
Those who are engrossed by the Jewish problem and strive to resolve it approach it from the most various points of view, save that which alone would be logical—I mean the Jewish point of view.
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This tombstone of a Torah scholar from Sieniawa, Poland includes motifs and symbols often found on Jewish tombstones in Poland, such as a crown and palm trees. Other common symbols on Jewish…