Israeli sculptor Drora Dominey was born at Kibbutz Merhavia. Many of her pieces focus on her experience of kibbutz life and on Israeli identity. Dominey, who teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, is the recipient of the Israel Education & Culture Minister’s Award (2007).
This silver Hanukkah lamp is an example of a new type for home use that became popular in the late seventeenth century in Frankfurt am Main. Designed to resemble an ancient menorah, it has a central…
Fromet Guggenheim (1737–1812) was the eldest daughter of a merchant from Hamburg. She married the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn in 1762. Exceptional for the time, theirs was not an arranged marriage…
Lost Youth is from a series of paintings called Forever, whose themes are youth, love, and death. Hod intended this picture, which depicts attendees at the funeral of a young Israeli soldier, as more…