Richard Nagler is a San Francisco Bay–based photographer and art promoter. He sponsored the Richard Nagler Competition for Jewish Photography, an annual international competition at the Judah L. Magnes Museum. Nagler has published several books of his photographs, including My Love Affair with Miami Beach, with text by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1991).
Before the war Bloyne was a rich and elegant Jewish town: wide streets, a large municipal park, several monuments, many tall buildings, large stores. But when the war came through, the town was…
Saul Leiter was known for his photographs of street life in New York City and for his pioneering work in color photography, but he also took more intimate pictures of his family and friends. This…
Built in the seventeenth century by the prominent Ibn Danan family, the Ibn Danan synagogue is located in the oldest and largest Jewish quarter of Fez, Morocco. It is one of the few remaining old…