Arieh Allweil’s IDF Haggadah
Introduction In many ways artist Arieh Allweil (1901-1967) created the IDF Passover Haggadah (1950)...
Allweil: Independence Haggadah
INTRODUCTION When I began working with the daughters of artist Arieh Allweil...
Bookcase upgrade: Going High Style
Introduction I felt so fortunate to be able to live with the...
Arieh Allweil’s Haggadahs: Part 1
– Introduction When I began working with Ruth Sperling and Nava Rosenfeld,...
Bed Exchange
Introduction Antique beds are not so imposing when disassembled, not even high-post...
Finlay Chairs? A question of attribution
Introduction Ever since purchasing six Baltimore fancy chairs (above) in 1993 from...
Making a COVID BOWL with Eric Avery: Part I
All images of artwork by Eric Avery are used with the permission...
Irwin Hoffman: Etcher of Workers
Introduction When I first bought prints by Irwin Hoffman, he was still...
Arieh Allweil’s Lamentation
INTRODUCTION Lamentation is the fourth and last book that Arieh Allweil (1901-1967)...
Arieh Allweil: Scroll of Esther
Introduction If only I had a better sense of timing! If I...
Arieh Allweil: Scroll of Ruth
Introduction Last summer when I first began my communication with Ruth Sperling...
American Jewish Artists: Pre-1947
Introduction After devoting a blog post on Die Bibel by Bruno Goldschmitt,...
Bruno Goldschmitt’s “Die Bibel”
Introduction For a blogger who has devoted considerable effort to present Jewish...
Arieh Allweil: Touring the Land
introduction This ART I SEE blog post, the sixth on the artist...
Second-chance Commode
Introduction It doesn’t make any sense that, after I purchased the above...