Marilyn Hirsh was born in Chicago, attended Carnegie Mellon University and served in the Peace Corps. Hirsh was a children’s author and the illustrator of more than thirty books addressing Jewish and Indian culture. A specialist in Indian and Buddhist art, she taught at the Cooper Union and the New York University Institute of Fine Arts and received the Sydney Taylor Body of Work Award in 1979.
This bronze, cast, and gilt Hanukkah lamp from France is decorated with the head of a warrior wearing a laurel wreath, most likely meant to depict Judah Maccabee, leader of the uprising against the…
This card for Rosh Hashanah plays on the common Jewish experience of immigration to the United States to offer the traditional New Year’s wishes of long life, health, happiness, and success. Framing…
The music for “Se’u She‘arim (Lift Up Your Heads, O Gates)” resembles the choral marches found in grand opera. The words are from Psalm 24: O gates, lift up your heads! Up high, you everlasting doors…