Early Christian art contains frequent depictions of Jews but rarely gives them any distinctive Jewish features. Then, around the year 1000, Jews begin to appear. . .
The image of a vicious Jew with a large, hooked nose has long been a mainstay of anti-Semitic caricature, and remains so today. Before the. . .
Max Stern, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, established himself as a successful art dealer in Montreal and went on to revolutionize the Canadian art. . .
The British Pre-Raphaelites wanted to turn back the artistic and cultural clock; the Italian Futurists wanted to turn it (violently) forward. What do Jews and Christians want?
Through facile explanations of the material origins of human thought, an intolerant pseudoscience aims to debunk all art, culture, and religion.
Synagogue painters in 19th- and 20th-century Romania left behind an extraordinarily rich variety of images of the longed-for but never-seen Holy Land.
New research into the career of Hildebrand Gurlitt, whose art collection was recently discovered in Munich, discloses the scale of both his trade in. . .
A recently rediscovered painting depicts the abduction of a Jewish child by church authorities 150 years ago in an incident that changed the course of Italian and Jewish history.
A new biography of the art historian Bernard Berenson distinguishes itself from its predecessors by exploring his childhood in Lithuania and his adolescent struggles with Jewish identity.
The story of the family behind the Nazi-era art trove
In Paris, an unoriginal exhibition of Chagall’s middle-period paintings has entranced both audiences and critics; in Liverpool, a show of his prodigious early work has. . .
Born in Czernowitz in 1913, the Romanian-Jewish artist Isiu Schärf painted landscapes from Siberia to Israel. A collector is planning to reintroduce his work to the public.