HAPPY YOM HA’ATZMAUT! ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE DAY!
Not that it’s getting ready to retire, but Israel is turning 64, oh, TOMORROW! This image of a postcard from Israel’s third birthday in 1951 seems like it comes from the distant past, what with the image of a Roman column.
Postcard celebrating Israeli Independence Day 1951, designed by R. Siedner, Collection of Yeshiva University Museum (1997.126), gift of Beverly Fettman
![THE HOSTESS WITH THE MOSTESS - AREN’T WE ALL BACK TO SCHOOL?
For those who started their fiscal year in January, how about now settling down and celebrating (hopefully) the success of the past year! This postcard shows a group of Jews c. 1917 dressed up in their smart clothes and socializing (perhaps discussing plans to support their favorite museum that start with a Y and ends in an eshiva University Museum [hint hint])?
Postcard depicting Hostess Room at Jewish Hospitality House. Men in sailor uniforms and women, many in hats and fur coats, sit/stand around a room. Table with potted plant center. Published by The Hospitality House, J.W.B. [Jewish Welfare Board] 47 Mt. Vernon St., Boston, Mass. JWB logo and text describing hostess room on reverse.
Postcard. Hostess Room: Jewish Hospitality House, Boston, Mass. Yeshiva University Museum, New York (2000.002). Randy Russell](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loyi0lLsYj1qiyrilo1_r1_500.jpg)
THE HOSTESS WITH THE MOSTESS - AREN’T WE ALL BACK TO SCHOOL?
For those who started their fiscal year in January, how about now settling down and celebrating (hopefully) the success of the past year! This postcard shows a group of Jews c. 1917 dressed up in their smart clothes and socializing (perhaps discussing plans to support their favorite museum that start with a Y and ends in an eshiva University Museum [hint hint])?
Postcard depicting Hostess Room at Jewish Hospitality House. Men in sailor uniforms and women, many in hats and fur coats, sit/stand around a room. Table with potted plant center. Published by The Hospitality House, J.W.B. [Jewish Welfare Board] 47 Mt. Vernon St., Boston, Mass. JWB logo and text describing hostess room on reverse.
Postcard. Hostess Room: Jewish Hospitality House, Boston, Mass. Yeshiva University Museum, New York (2000.002). Randy Russell
![DREAM BIG OR GO HOME-BACK TO SCHOOL!
College is the opportunity of a lifetime. In addition to providing great friends and inspiring teachers, higher education helps you to nurture your dreams. Dream big this semester…Dream of being an artist like these students!
Photograph showing men and a woman seated in a brightly-lighted room. In the center of their chairs are three benches, one topped by a pot on three feet; the second with a classical bust of a man (the poet Homer); the third with striding lion. An older man stands by the chair of one of the students. At the far end of the room is a six-pointed star above a cabinet containing busts. #37.
Slide. Technicum (Technion) - Drawing [class]. Yeshiva University Museum, New York (2009.435). Gift of Av Rivel](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loyho35oJW1qiyrilo1_500.jpg)
DREAM BIG OR GO HOME-BACK TO SCHOOL!
College is the opportunity of a lifetime. In addition to providing great friends and inspiring teachers, higher education helps you to nurture your dreams. Dream big this semester…Dream of being an artist like these students!
Photograph showing men and a woman seated in a brightly-lighted room. In the center of their chairs are three benches, one topped by a pot on three feet; the second with a classical bust of a man (the poet Homer); the third with striding lion. An older man stands by the chair of one of the students. At the far end of the room is a six-pointed star above a cabinet containing busts. #37.
Slide. Technicum (Technion) - Drawing [class]. Yeshiva University Museum, New York (2009.435). Gift of Av Rivel
Happy New Year! May 2012 be filled with happiness and joy
This postcard includes four children, two boys and two girls, blowing white horns. The Yiddish on the postcard translates to:
“The children march along
Like corporals
A children’s band
They toot and blast
Greetings they bear
Blessings they offer
And New Year’s wishes
Any takers out there?”
The year has just begun, which could only mean one thing at YUM… More exhibitions, artifacts, history, and art to share with all of you! Don’t forget to update yourself with our exhibition page so you won’t miss a show! Check out YUM’s exhibition page!
Postcard. Publisher: Williamsburg Art Co.(ca. 1915) Saxony, Germany. Yeshiva University Museum, New York (2005.065). Gift of Deborah Karp.
POETICS OF PLACE - 1/12 6-8 PM @YUMUSEUM. Get your tickets today!
Yeshiva University Museum, Drunken Boat, and Tin House present POETICS OF PLACE, a literary performance and response to the exhibition Prophecy of Place: Quintan Ana Wikswo.
Join us on January 12 for a multimedia performance featuring new fiction and
poetry by Drunken Boat editor Ravi Shankar, David and Ruth Gottesman
Professor of English at Stern College of Yeshiva University and Drunken Boat
author Joy Ladin, and Yeshiva University Honors College Artist-in-Residence
Quintan Ana Wikswo reading from her new short story in Tin House.
6pm: Exhibition walk-through with the artist and exhibition curator
7pm: Performance and a conversation with the writers by Ravi Shankar, and
introduction by Joanne Jacobson, Professor of English at Yeshiva University
The event is free, but reservations are required. www.smarttix.com or (212) 868-4444.
Click HERE for exhibition information and images
Click HERE to make a reservation
Sponsored by Yeshiva University Museum, Drunken Boat, and Tin House
RECORD ALBUM MOSAIC … THE JEWISH KIND!
At the entrance to YUM’s exhibition Jews on Vinyl you’ll find a fantastic, floor-to-ceiling mosaic comprised of gorgeous record albums covers. Some from familiar songsters of the 1950s and 1960s, and others a bit more esoteric, illustrate the incredible impact of Jewish folk music on American popular music in the 20th century. The exhibition runs through January 15th, so get yourself over to YUM before it closes.
Photograph by Dina Horowitz for Yeshiva University Museum, 2010
Jews on Vinyl was adapted from an earlier exhibition created by the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
AN ERUV WITH LASERS, OR THE LASER ERUV
From artist Elliot Malkin
I’m sitting here, gathering notes and a plan for an eventual exhibition on the Eruv, a special physical and legal construction that makes it possible for Jews to carry certain objects on the Sabbath. It essentially encloses certain types of public spaces to create a communal, Jewish private space. Pretty nifty, eh?
Well, in THIS incarnation, there’s another step: Lasers. As artist Elliot Malkin devised in this this fascinating project, some of the difficulties that come about with maintaining and Eruv can be overcome with the user of … Lasers. Then again, this would certainly be a point for debate.
Check out Malkin’s work at his website: http://dziga.com/laser/
Thu, 22 Dec ‘11
Trace a Time Machine to See Jewish Women Cartoonists of Yesterday and Today
Yeshiva University plays host to eighteen underground artists
If you ask serious comic book fans when confessional comics hit their stride, nine out of ten are going to cite luminaries like Robert Crumb or Jaxon. The remaining one will inexplicably cite Todd McFarlane. The underground comix scene of the 70s was more than just Rip Off Press and Zap Comix, however. There was a similar scene being fomented by young Jewish women that exists to this day. Wait, you’ve never heard of it? Thank goodness for museum exhibits.
Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women is shining a light (or eight) on Jewish women’s role in shaping the medium. It focuses on eighteen cartoonists, including newer notable names like Vanessa Davis and old school ink-mavens such as Aline Kominsky-Crumb. Yes, that is Robert’s wife, who strangely is not a giantess. Most of the pieces on display are autobiographical and, as such, some are downright funny and others are incredibly embarrassing and glum. You know, just like life. Is that a Yiddish proverb?
Spin dreidel-like to the Yeshiva University Museum at 15 West 16th Street. It’s eight (there’s that number again) dollars, but Mondays, Wednesday evenings and Fridays are free. It runs until April, but what better time than the holidays to go check it out? Something has to happen between all of those crazy nights of Hanukkah present opening and candle lighting.
Read the piece on GeekChicDaily.com
Check out the Forward’s page for the Graphic Detail’s symposium, coming this February to YU Museum! Get your tickets!
Zhang! This is a fantastic way to respond to Graphic Details! Through memoir comic art! Terrific! Read on through the link!
Check out the whole article at Tabletmag.com
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