By way of our prayers and our practical commandments that we perform below, we need to cause a coupling of the male and the female, and we raise them up…
Remembrance was commissioned by Congregation Agudas Achim in Bexley, Ohio. The nine-foot-tall bronze sculpture depicts smoke rising from a crematorium, intertwined with the arm of a survivor…
Édouard Moyse’s painting portrays the Grand Sanhedrin, the Jewish high court assembled by Napoleon in 1807 to ratify the answers of an assembly of Jewish communal leaders to twelve questions submitted…
Daniel Henriques de Castro, a member of one of Amsterdam’s prominent Portuguese Jewish families, was a pharmacist, art collector, and glass engraver. He executed works for use in Jewish rituals as well as items for non-Jewish clients. Castro took after the master engraver known as Wolf, carrying on the technique of stippling, whereby numerous small dots are made upon a glass surface with the use of an etching needle and a small hammer. A painstaking process, the stipple method produces a particularly delicate, filmlike design that cannot be achieved through the more common technique of acid etching. In 1883, Castro’s son published an article about glass engraving, “Een en ander over glasgravure,” in a Dutch quarterly, detailing the processes of his father’s art.
By way of our prayers and our practical commandments that we perform below, we need to cause a coupling of the male and the female, and we raise them up…
Remembrance was commissioned by Congregation Agudas Achim in Bexley, Ohio. The nine-foot-tall bronze sculpture depicts smoke rising from a crematorium, intertwined with the arm of a survivor…
Édouard Moyse’s painting portrays the Grand Sanhedrin, the Jewish high court assembled by Napoleon in 1807 to ratify the answers of an assembly of Jewish communal leaders to twelve questions submitted…