Lilith doesn't belong to any one story, she survives by slipping between them. Named in fear, shaped by punishment, and reclaimed in defiance, she marks the point where desire collides with control.

In a preface to the 1932 Hebrew edition of the painter Leonid Pasternak’s study of Rembrandt, Russian-Jewish poet Hayim Nahman Bialik observed that although the Dutch artist was not Jewish, we “must ...