Living Jewish Art

Regular price €49.99
Regular price €50.99 Sale Sale price €49.99
A01=Richard McBee
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Richard McBee
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=AGB
CommunitiesinJerusalem
COP=United States
Delivery_Pre-order
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_new_release
eq_non-fiction
Haredi
Israel
Jerusalem
JewishArt
JewishArtists
JewishTraditions
Language_English
NewYork
Orthodox
PA=Not yet available
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Forthcoming
Shul
softlaunch
Synagogue

Product details

  • ISBN 9780789215017
  • Weight: 1498g
  • Dimensions: 254 x 279mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Mar 2025
  • Publisher: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days

Our Delivery Time Frames Explained
2-4 Working Days: Available in-stock

10-20 Working Days
: On Backorder

Will Deliver When Available
: On Pre-Order or Reprinting

We ship your order once all items have arrived at our warehouse and are processed. Need those 2-4 day shipping items sooner? Just place a separate order for them!

The eagerly awaited first book on the foremost painter of contemporary Jewish life.

Itshak Holtz (1925–2018) was born in a small town near Warsaw and moved with his family to Jerusalem when he was ten years old; he pursued his artistic training there and at the Art Students League and National Academy of Design in New York. From the beginning of his artistic career, he was drawn to depict the life of the Orthodox Jewish communities of which he himself was a part, in both New York and Jerusalem. Working in a realistic yet painterly style, Holtz portrayed the real people around him — their prayer houses, their streets, their work, and their celebrations. His work forms an intimate guide to the Jewish world, approached with the sensitivity, confidence, and thorough familiarity that only someone living and breathing it could attain. This handsome volume reproduces a generous selection of Holtz’s finest paintings, as well as his drawings and prints. An insightful text by Richard McBee, the noted writer on Jewish art, illuminates Holtz’s life and work. Living Jewish Art is a celebration of the continuity of Jewish life and tradition, and a must for anyone who is interested in Jewish art.

Richard McBee is a painter of biblical subject matter and a writer on Jewish art. From 2000 to 2014 he covered art for the Jewish Press, and he continues to lecture and curate exhibitions. He is a founding member of the Jewish Art Salon, a global network for Jewish visual art.