Romans, not Jews.

Yosl Bergner.

A new book tells its history.

The 500th anniversary of the first ghetto.

A genius for historical contradictions.

In art and in life.

Noah’s ark and the splitting of the Red Sea.

Personal reflections on Yosl Bergner.

More than caftans and camels and dancing violinists.

From embracing Jewish subjects to avoiding them.

Jewish visual culture is an amplification of Jewish verbal culture.

It only took Vitebsk, Belarus fifty years.

Archaeologists have uncovered a handful of synagogues from the talmudic period (ca. 70 – 600 CE), mostly in the northern parts of Israel. Some of. . .

Micrography, the use of miniature writing to draw shapes and pictures, has been a Jewish art form for over a millennium. Traditionally, the letters spell. . .