A pair of exhibits, one at Harvard Art Museums, the other at New York’s Neue Galerie, try to read the signs of a coming conflagration and its attendant guilt in works made under the rise and fall of National Socialism

Cynthia Ozick introduces artist Mark Podwal’s new collected works

In 1947, Roman Vishniac documented Orthodox Jewish Holocaust Survivors near Paris. He also photographed Antoine.

In the late photographer’s first career retrospective, the ‘aroma of daily life’ lives forever

‘The Left Front’ highlights American art made for the Soviet Union’s official “Jewish homeland”

The Met’s dazzling retrospective declares: ‘It’s all a matter of how much freedom you can stand.’

‘Snapshot’ highlights traces of the city’s past using Polaroid-style frames

On the 26th anniversary of Freedom Sunday, a photographer uses objects to look at the immigrant experience

Photographer Łukasz Baksik hunts repurposed matzevot, burial markers turned cornerstones and cobbles

The annual sales include postcards from Alan Dershowitz’s collection and a stunning 18th-century Haggadah

In West Jerusalem, neighborhood borders are often marked by the political graffiti sprayed on the streets

A ghostly chaise at Grossinger’s, rubble at the Concord, and other photos of once-great Catskills resorts

The skilled Israeli painter, a Holocaust survivor who died in 2010, has a major gallery show in New York. Plus: an interview with his daughter.

Nathan Hilu, an 89-year-old veteran who lives on New York’s Lower East Side, makes frenzied art from his potent memories of Jewish life and loss

Brooklyn-born photographer Julius Shulman, the subject of two recent books, captured Los Angeles’ development into a center of modernism