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Samantha Baskind
Samantha Baskind is a distinguished professor of art history at Cleveland State University. She is the author of many books on Jewish culture and edits the Pennsylvania State University Press book series Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination.
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Artwork at “Hostages Square,” outside of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Photo by Samantha Baskind.
In Tel Aviv’s ‘Hostages Square,’ a nearly 40-year-old sculpture assumes new meaning
Menashe Kadishman’s “Sacrifice of Isaac” may be overshadowed right now by a symbolic Shabbat table set for the remaining hostages being held captive in Gaza, though it has taken on new symbolism.
Samantha Baskind
Jan. 25, 2024
Monument to the Warsaw Uprising Fighters located in a part of the former Warsaw Ghetto. Photo by Isaac Harari/Flash90.
80 years ago, a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising play aimed to save European Jews
NBC Radio and the AJC teamed up on “The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto,” penned by Jewish playwright Morton Wishengrad.
Samantha Baskind
April 18, 2023