Absalon was the name adopted by Israeli artist Eshel Meir upon his arrival in Paris in the late 1980s. His “cellules,” life-sized architectural models made of wood and painted white, were designed as both sculptures and living-pods. Six of these were exhibited at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris shortly before Absalon’s untimely death at the age of twenty-nine. His work has been exhibited posthumously in Europe, the United States, and Turkey and is found in the Tate Modern, Daimler Modern, and other public collections.
Jules Lellouche painted the interior of this synagogue in Djerba during World War II, when Tunisia was ruled by Vichy France. Though Tunisia’s Jewish community escaped mass deportations and murder in…
This Haggadah was commissioned by Nathan ben Isaac Oppenheim of Vienna, a member of a prominent family of Court Jews. Its title page features a miniature of the sacrifice of Isaac being prevented by…
The Jewish couple in Frankfurt am Main depicted here are wearing distinctive clothing that would have clearly identified them as Jews: the man’s collar, hat, and cloak, and the woman’s ruff and winged…