Once a strategic trading post that channeled the flow of riches and ideas among countries situated along the South China Sea and places as far away as India and Rome, Vietnam has a fascinating history and an artistic heritage to match it. This lavish...

Shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet Jewish theatres became catalysts for modernist experimentation. Working with avant-garde playwrights, actors and producers in a new political environment, artists such as Marc Chagall, Natan Altman, Robe...

Thomas Chimes (b. 1921) is one of Philadelphia's most important living artists. Tracing the stylistic evolution of Chimes' idiosyncratic art, this handsome book presents a long-overdue survey of his remarkable five-decade career: canvases combining l...

What can art tell us about Israel today? Is there an artistic consensus among those living inside and outside the country? How does an artist come to terms with the disturbing realities in Israel – violence, political instability, insecurity, and soc...

In this volume, Nechama Tec offers insights into the differences between the experiences of Jewish women and men during the Holocaust.

The marriage of William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919) and Lucy Madox Brown (1843-1894) united two of the most resonant Pre-Raphaelite family names. Their passionate and ultimately tragic relationship provides a fresh perspective on 19th-century marria...

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) created magnificent paintings, tapestry designs, prints and drawings over the course of his long and productive career. Women frequently appeared as the subjects of Goya's works, from his painted cartoons for th...

In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition of "Twentieth-Century Art". The catalogue identified four main strands in modern painting but included a fifth group of Jewish artists, hung in the "Small Gallery". In this illum...