Jewish art
Michelangelo had a thousand years of Catholic art to build on when creating the Sistine Chapel. Jews haven’t had such a tradition, until a secular Jew from Brooklyn stepped up.
A new hasidic art gallery grows in Brooklyn and is already bucking stereotypes. Can it survive, and what does it suggest about contemporary Orthodox life?
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.
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.
The palm trees of Elim and beasts of Daniel at Huqoq.
You won’t find much of it at the Jewish Museum, but a vibrant Jewish art culture does exist—and needs support.
From its priceless collection of artworks, a foremost cultural institution has harvested mainly inferior examples for display, while submerging Jewish identity in a sea of “universal values.”