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February 14, 2023

A Haredi Artist’s Visual Love Letters to Jerusalem

Ahuva Elisha.

Yesterday an exhibit opened in Israel’s capital dedicated to the art of Ahuva (Huvy) Elisha (1927–2022), a religiously devout painter whose work was primarily influenced by European impressionism but who lived much of her life in the city’s ḥaredi enclave of Me’ah She’arim. Elisha’s paintings have hung in the Knesset and in the U.S. embassy. Emily Schrader writes:

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February 14, 2023

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