Description: Includes scenery and cut-out figures to illustrate and reenact the stories of Noah and the flood, Jacob (and Esau), Joseph and his coat of many colours, Moses, King David. This was ...

One of the stories is of Joseph, son of the patriarch Jacob and his wife Rachel. The story shows the importance of forgiveness. Joseph was Jacob’s favourite son because he was born in his old ...

This was the latest and most advanced of a series of panels that were made to decorate the bedchamber of the Florentine banker Pierfrancesco Borgherini on the occasion of his marriage in 1515. The ...

The paintings, commissioned by Pierfrancesco’s father, tell the Old Testament story of Joseph ... hearing a petition from the victims of famine; Joseph with his sons climbing the staircase to visit ...

Rabbi Jacob Joseph (1840-1902) was the first Chief Rabbi in New York City. Born in Vilna, Poland, he came to the United States at the request of the New York Jewish community. After his death in 1902, ...