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The rise of a whole new profession of calligraphy artists, often with little or no connection with tradition, has meant a new approach to the aleph-bet.
David Goldstein, “Hebrew Aleph-Bet” (2020) (image courtesy David Goldstein) The next section moves into calligraphy and lettering, a particular passion of the author, who movingly describes a ...
Here, she renders the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, hey, using sumi ink, traditional in Japanese calligraphy and made from the soot of burnt oils. In focusing on a single letter, Wapner echoes ...
Critics called Shomer’s letters a degradation and abuse of the Hebrew language, and warned that they are part of an American-backed, left-wing conspiracy to undermine traditional Jewish values.
Community participants added additional designs, letters and leaves to the tree. Mordechai Rosenstein with one of his more recent pieces, which contains recycled carved blocks of Hebrew letters | ...
“A truly beautiful letter,” writes Izzy Pludwinski in his book “The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter” (Brandeis University Press, 2023), “will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce.” The book ...
Radicalizing the Hebrew Letter Translating text into visual forms, Lynne Avadenka creates meditative dialogues that transcend time. by Sarah Rose Sharp February 26, 2023 February 27, 2023 ...
Hebrew letters, when decoded, are magical. So it was especially powerful when my adult b’nai mitzvah Hebrew class was working on the letter Bet and opened the Torah to this week’s portion to ...
Maaida Noor's art is influenced by the world of geometry and traditional Islamic illumination An exhibition of Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy reveals "the interlaced nature" of the three faith ...