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Cover Illustrations for Peretz's Dramen
The three art nouveau-influenced covers by Ber Kratko for three of Y. L. Peretz’s plays feature somewhat grotesque figures. The one for Vos in fidele shtekt (What Sticks in the Fiddle) features a…
To the Majesty and Glory of Baron Hirsch (Lithograph)
The philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831–1896) was the leading benefactor of world Jewry in his time. He established the Baron de Hirsch Fund to assist immigrants to the United States and…
Table Lamp with Elaborate Silver Lampshade
During the time that Erich Goldberg served on the faculty of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, he produced several silver objects, inspired by Yemenite silver craft. Green stones of…
Seal of the Jewish Publication Society of America
The Jewish Publication Society of America (JPS) was founded in Philadelphia in 1888. (It had a number of precursors that did not last.) Today, JPS is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher…
Wedding Ring with Adam, Eve, and Forbidden Fruit
This repoussé gold wedding ring inlaid with a diamond represents the iconic Bezalel style: a fusion of biblical motifs, early twentieth-century European art trends such as Jugendstil, and Eastern…
Temerl
Page from Moyshe Broderzon’s Temerl, illustrated by Joseph Chaikov, and published in Moscow shortly before the Russian Revolution. Chaikov illustrated this children’s book in a neo-Romantic style. A…