Sculptor Michael Gitlin emigrated with his family from South Africa to Israel as a child and has lived in New York City since 1970. Gitlin is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2005) and a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant (1991). His work is found in such collections as the Detroit Institute of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Jewish Museum.
Benjamin S. Judah (1761–1831) was an influential businessman in New York City and Philadelphia who built his wealth on shipping contracts to and from the West Indies. Judah was bankrupted when Great…
Édouard Moyse’s painting portrays the Grand Sanhedrin, the Jewish high court assembled by Napoleon in 1807 to ratify the answers of an assembly of Jewish communal leaders to twelve questions submitted…
The young couple depicted here are in the act of embracing one another, their cheeks touching. They are one of the best-known examples of Georg Ehrlich’s representational bronze sculptures, which…