After a career as a graphic designer in Los Angeles, Chicago–born Seymour Edelstein turned to photography, documenting shopkeepers and other people in their workplaces. His work can be found in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, the New-York Historical Society, the New York Public Library, and the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles. Edelstein taught at the Otis-Parsons School of Design and the University of California.
This bronze medal by Jacques Elion commemorates the opening of a Jewish orphanage in Amsterdam. The Hebrew inscription reads: “Orphanage.” It was customary for Jewish communities to issue medals to…
Seals from numerous sites in ancient Israel and elsewhere in the Levant have schematic depictions of two or three people with hands linked or raised, reaching toward each other. All the members of the…
The backs of many bullas, like those shown here from the City of David in Jerusalem, have impressions of the strings that once tied the rolled document and marks from the papyrus fibers of the…