Against the backdrop of the menorah’s disappearance, the counterpoint of art and history reinforces the power of this object and – as Alessandra Di Castro states in the catalog, become “means of universal dialogue”. A dialogue which unveils that things may not always be what they appear to be and that one story is, in reality, many.
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