Jane Logemann was born in Milwaukee. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions, including Abstraction & Language: A Dialogue, at La Maison Française, The French Embassy, Washington, D.C. (2003). She has participated in group shows in the United States, Israel, and Spain. Logemann’s artworks are at the Morgan Library, the Jewish Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the British Museum.
This unusual heart-shaped amulet from Morocco is inscribed with the words “God Almighty,” followed by the priestly blessing (Numbers 6:24–26) and an individualized text: “May God give him life and…
When Claude Cahun took this self-portrait photograph, she was still Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob and had not yet adopted her new gender-neutral name. She is wearing a pinafore, sitting quietly at a desk…
God relented. And the whispered prayers of the toiler returned not empty, and the tears of the sower reached to heaven.
With great, with manifold mercy the windows of heaven were flung open, flung…