Not far from Amsterdam, in the village of Ouderkerk on the River Amstel, lies the Portuguese-Jewish cemetery called ... Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael, the Jewish burial ground seemed ...

Besides, Ruisdael’s Jewish cemetery paintings are merely two of more than 700, Slive informed me; his book, “Jacob van Ruisdael” (Abbeville Press, 1981), further argues, “Simply nothing is ...

The gleaming vault is an allegory of the transcendent qualities of life that Ruisdael himself sought to portray in his painting. In his Jewish Cemetery, Ruisdael has kept alive not just the memory ...