Books of Jewish Beauty

revelation-at-sinai

Click Here to Read: Books of Jewish Beauty by Sara Lipton in The New York Review of Books on August 28, 2015.

The British Library: An image from volume 2 of The Tripartite Mahzor showing the revelation at Sinai; male protagonists have human heads, but women are given the heads of various animals, Germany, Lake Constance region, circa 1320