Printmaker and painter Miklós Adler was born in Debrecen, Hungary. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest from 1923 to 1934 before returning to his hometown, where he taught at a Jewish high school. In 1944, Adler and his family were arrested and deported to Auschwitz, but their train was rerouted to the Terezín concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, which was liberated in May 1945. After the war, Adler returned to his hometown and continued his arts career, producing a series of sixteen woodcuts, seven of which appear in A Survivors’ Haggadah, used by Jewish survivors in displaced persons camps near Munich for the first Passover after the war. In 1960, Adler immigrated to Israel.
This synagogue, located in Carpentras, in Provence, was built in 1367 but went through serious repairs and was remodeled between 1741 and 1744 by a local civil engineer Antoine D’Allemand, in the…
This foldout calendar is a beautifully illuminated feature that appears in a sefer ‘evronot. Works of this genre were Jewish calendar handbooks for calculating the dates of religious holidays and…
When I observe a toothless ex-violinist,
with more hair than face, sprawled like Karl Marx
on a park seat or slumped, dead or asleep,
in the central heat of a public library
I think of Uncle Isidore…