The work of Israeli artist Gil Shahar has appeared in exhibitions in Israel, Europe, and the United States, including solo shows at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (1992, 2009) and the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (1998). He has received an America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award (1992) and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2005).
Shpanyer-arbet (spun work) was the name for a type of decorative gold and silver lace that adorned yarmulkes, prayer shawls, and other Jewish ritual garments in Eastern Europe. It was woven on a…
Born in Córdoba, Spain, Esther Gabay Henriques married Daniel de la Penha, a Spanish merchant in Rotterdam. The family coat of arms appears above the epitaph. Beneath is a low relief of the couple’s…
The wooden synagogue in Gwozńdziec, eastern Galicia (modern-day Ukraine), was one of more than two hundred wooden synagogues that existed in Poland before World War II. Such synagogues were popular…