“A new Hebrew city should exhibit new Hebrew art.”

Artist, Holocaust survivor, and Jewish hero.

Edwin Salomon.

Samuel van Hoogstraten’s Old Man at a Window.

A visit to the Rothschilds’ home in Waddesdon.

A fabricated life.

From the Ashes, a Fire Shall Be Woken.

Kaddish for a friend of the Jews.

Politics, aesthetics, and tradition.

The Sassoons.

The joy of summer, the hardships of poverty, or the paradoxes of homecoming?

Centuries have passed, yet the puzzle of the Holy City remains the same.

Hilton Kramer believed art must be moral—but not political.