The serene Mediterranean coastline nestles Barcelona on one side while round green mountains frame the other. The city of 1.5 million—capital of the independent Spanish

An enlarged map of Paris from a 1920 French guidebook hangs at the entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s “Paris Through the Window: Marc

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In my house, mishloah manot—festive packages of food exchanged between friends and family on Purim—were a simple, homespun affair. We would pile stacks of waffle-edged, floppy