Jewish art
“Artists are more connected to God.”
A professor of Jewish art finds himself turning from one explanation of a puzzling drawing found in an old manuscript to another—and then possibly back again.
Should a Russian sculptor have chosen to carve Herod rather than Ivan the Terrible?
The minimalist and the circle-drawer.
The grandfather of micro-drawing.
From an Amsterdam convert to Maxwell House.
From Barbadian slave to respected member of New York’s Jewish elite.
Hermann Struck’s World War I.
An illuminated manuscript reflecting the Roman Jewish rite.
From art to crude propaganda.
Salomone de Sesso.
In the Golan Heights, evidence of a transition from study hall to prayer hall.
An artifact of one of Europe’s oldest Jewish communities.
Including a “mazal tov” ring.
