The work of Israeli photographer Elinor Carucci has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Details, New York Magazine, W, Aperture, and ARTnews. Her photographs have been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, as well as galleries in New York and London. Carucci has received numerous awards, including an ICP Infinity Award (2001) and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York City and teaches at the School of Visual Arts.
Rembrandt van Rijn lived in the part of Amsterdam where the artists’ guild (St. Luke’s Guild) was located. By coincidence, it was also home to a number of Jews. Rembrandt’s artworks attest to an…
Shown here are two slightly different reconstructions of the Tabernacle based on the Bible’s descriptions; many details derive from educated guesses. The first shows the sanctuary compound with its…
This impressive cut-paper birth amulet is in the form of the double eagle, the symbol of the Habsburg Monarchy (and pre-partition Poland) and thus a popular motif in Galician Jewish folk art. It is…