Survivors Are Not Heroes

Elaine Lustig Cohen designed this catalog cover for the Jewish Museum in New York’s exhibition, Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors, at a time when she was developing a bold new…

Perhaps the most iconic photograph of the Six Day War is this one, of three Israeli paratroopers at the Western Wall shortly after its capture by the Israeli army on the third day of the war. A few…

Louis Mitelberg drew this cartoon in ironic response to a 1967 comment made by French president Charles De Gaulle in the wake of the Six Day War, in which he described the Jewish people (now that they…

Red Stripe Kitchen is from Martha Rosler’s Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful, a series created to protest the Vietnam War and the ways in which Americans distance themselves from violence…

The Liberation of Jerusalem, created shortly after the Six Day War, was a bold statement by its artist Solomon (Shlomo) Dreizner, at a time when any expression of support for Israel by Soviet Jews…

Sholem Aleichem’s grotesque story “The Haunted Tailor” tells of a poor, witless tailor who is sent on a mission to buy a milk-giving goat, who turns out to be possessed. In the Soviet Union, it was…