Robert Goldblum

Email Print With the Eighty Years’ War still flaring and the yoke of Spanish rule hanging around their necks, the 17th-century Dutch were in need of a potent symbol of liberation that would speak to their fight for freedom. Enter the biblical Queen Esther. Rembrandt van Rijn, the great Dutch master, and his artist contemporaries found inspiration in the hero of the Purim story at a time when waves of Jewish immigrants were arriving in Amsterdam from the Iberian Peninsula.

Email Print In the opening section of his 1926 epic poem “Paterson,” William Carlos Williams lays down a marker, a revolutionary credo, for his generation of American poets: “Say it, no ideas but in things.” It’s a mantra that seems to animate the work of Israeli photographer and collage artist Ilit Azoulay, whose new show at The Jewish Museum in New York City—her first solo exhibition in the United States—opens on September 13 and bears the unassuming but sly name, “Mere Things.” The works...

The White House on Thursday released the first-ever U.S. national strategy to counter antisemitism, presenting a whole-of-society approach that includes more than 100 policy commitments across the executive branch and a call to action for ordinary Americans to stand together with the Jewish community in fighting antisemitism.