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Tiffany Synagogues: Like the Lamps, But Holier

Here’s what probably comes to mind when you hear the name Louis Comfort Tiffany: stained glass lampshades in intricate, kaleidoscopic, jewel tones. Here’s what should come to mind: gorgeous late 19th- and early 20th-century synagogues and even Jewish cemeteries designed and decorated by the Presbyterian scion of the famous American jeweler. Tiffany was sought after […]

This Little-Known German Jewish Refugee Made Stirring Art About Trauma

Imagine a box made of and filled with wire and string, frayed cloth, rotted paper, wood, stitching, netting, and mesh. Imagine that this box symbolizes the trauma and beauty of the world. Now imagine that this work was created by a German Jewish refugee named Hannelore Baron, whose experience watching her father beaten during Kristallnacht […]

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Frans Krajcberg, Jewish sculptor and protector of Brazil’s forests, dies at 96

Tiffany Synagogues: Like the Lamps, But Holier

This Little-Known German Jewish Refugee Made Stirring Art About Trauma

This Artist’s Chewing Gum Genitalia Was an Homage to the Holocaust

This Bubbe’s White Wardrobe is NYC’s Hottest New Art

A Jewish mask-maker draws inspiration, and customers, from Amsterdam’s Red Light District

Meet the Jewish artist behind the haunting Purim puppets of Paris

This Forgotten Soviet Artist Depicted Jewish Suffering

The Original ‘Hollyweed’ Prankster was a Jewish Art Student

Barry Manilow rushed to hospital following mouth surgery complication

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