लेखक: Bruce Zuckerman

Ruth Weisberg, artist, Professor of Fine Arts and former Dean at the Roski School, University of Southern California, received the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 50th Anniversary Cultural Achievement Award in 2011. She has been the recipient many other awards and recognitions. Weisberg has had over 80 solo and 185 group exhibitions, including a recent major exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena and a retrospective at the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles. Her work is included in sixty major Museum collections including those of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris; the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica in Rome; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Norwegian National Museum in Oslo; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Bruce Zuckerman is a professor of Religion at USC, teaching courses in the Hebrew Bible, the Bible in Western Literature, the Ancient Near East, and Archaeology. Professor Zuckerman received his Ph.D. in ancient Near Eastern Languages from Yale University.