The work of Israeli artist Yitzhak Livneh has been featured at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and at many group shows, including Contemporary Israeli Art, in Sienna (2000). He is a recipient of the Pundak Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2002), and the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Education prize (2005). Livneh teaches at the Bezalel Museum of Art and Design.
Simeon Solomon’s The Moon and Sleep was inspired by the Greek story of Endymion, a beautiful youth beloved of Selene, the goddess of the moon. Zeus granted Endymion ageless immortality, subjecting…
Don Francisco (Abraham Israel) Lopes Suasso (ca. 1657–1710), a prominent financier of Portuguese Jewish heritage, had ten children with his second wife, Leonora (Rachel) da Costa (1669–1749). In these…
Cherkassky’s gold Star of David with the word “Jude” in its center was displayed in Collectio Judaica at the Rosenfeld Gallery in 2003. It was the artist’s first major solo exhibition. The theme of…