GRAPHIC DETAILS ACADEMIC SYMPOSIUM WEBPAGE IS UP
Check out the Forward’s page for the Graphic Detail’s symposium, coming this February to YU Museum! Get your tickets!
GRAPHIC DETAILS ACADEMIC SYMPOSIUM WEBPAGE IS UP
Check out the Forward’s page for the Graphic Detail’s symposium, coming this February to YU Museum! Get your tickets!
From Tablet: Confessional An artist’s impressions of the “Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women” exhibit at Yeshiva University Museum
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
OLD AND NEW - From the CJH Blog
by Zachary Levine, Assisant Curator and Jacob Wisse, Director, Yeshiva University Museum, one of five partners of the Center for Jewish History
A series of new textiles, commissioned from New York-based artist Mark Podwal for Prague’s celebrated Altneuschul (Old-New Synagogue), is the focus of an exhibition at Yeshiva University Museum, Old and the New (November 27, 2011–January 15, 2012). The oldest continuously-active synagogue in the world, the Altneuschul, completed in 1270, is recognized for its architectural beauty and as a symbol of Czech-Jewish identity. Embroidered in gold thread on rich velvet, the textiles represent the first major commission for the sanctuary of the Prague shul in over 70 years, merging a contemporary artistic aesthetic with traditional Czech-Jewish art. The YU Museum is privileged to unveil the textiles before they are shipped to Prague to be installed and dedicated in spring 2012.
The textiles, including a Torah ark cover, three Torah mantles, and covers for the Torah reading and cantor’s desks, will be used on a daily basis in the sanctuary of the synagogue. Podwal melds imagery from Jewish Prague’s physical landscape with that based on the mythology of the city and the synagogue. At the core of Old and the New is the Altneuschul itself, the historical center of Prague’s Jewish community. Complementing the textiles are the YU Museum’s historic scale model of the synagogue and a selection of Podwal’s earlier graphic work of Prague.
SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND
Dreidles such as this were common in Europe and America, and were often home made. This one was found, buried in a yard. Although one’s mind jumps immediately to the Holocaust, a small, inexpensive item such as this could easily have been lost long before that time.
Hanukkah top (dreidle), lead, Poland, late 19th/early 20th century, Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, Gift of Gordon David and Renee Tawa in honor of Helen and Charles Gordon
WHAT IS THIS?
Is it a rabbit? A llama? Whichever it is, the fur-bearing biped to the right appears delighted.
Snow creature, Israel, ca. 1930s. Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, Gift of Av Rivel.
![A BIBLE-STUDYING GOAT
This magnificently illustrated Hanukkah storybook tells the story of a Dreidel which spins in a Matisse-like interior and meets a Bible-studying goat (not pictured) in the countryside. The illustrations are probably by Yaakov Epter.
La-Sevivon (To The Top [Dreidel]) Frankfurt am Main, ca. 1922 Publisher: Gamliel Library, Verlag Omonuth, Frankfurt am Main, Moscow, Odessa Printer: M. Lerberger and Partners, Frankfurt am Main Collection of Yeshiva University Museum The Jean Sorkin Moldovan Collection Gift of the Jesselson Family](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv4w3kHQGW1qiyrilo1_500.jpg)
A BIBLE-STUDYING GOAT
This magnificently illustrated Hanukkah storybook tells the story of a Dreidel which spins in a Matisse-like interior and meets a Bible-studying goat (not pictured) in the countryside. The illustrations are probably by Yaakov Epter.
La-Sevivon (To The Top [Dreidel]) Frankfurt am Main, ca. 1922 Publisher: Gamliel Library, Verlag Omonuth, Frankfurt am Main, Moscow, Odessa Printer: M. Lerberger and Partners, Frankfurt am Main Collection of Yeshiva University Museum The Jean Sorkin Moldovan Collection Gift of the Jesselson Family
GET YOUR FESTIVAL OF LIGHT SWITCHED ON WITH THIS HANUKKAH LAMP
Galicia or Ukraine, ca. 1800 Silver: cast, filigree, engraved The Max Stern Collection. Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, New York. This lamp is of the Ba’al Shem Tov type, named after the founder of Hasidism, who, tradition tells us, owned a Hanukkah lamp of this type. This made it very popular in the Ukraine and in Poland. Unfortunately, many collectors have purchased lamps of this type in the mistaken belief that their purchase was originally owned by the Baal Shem Tov himself.
WINTER IS A BLAST… OF… WINTER… IN JERUSALEM
OR
REMEMBER THAT TIME WHEN JERUSALEM WAS COVERED IN SNOW?
Snow-covered Jerusalem, glass slide, Israel, ca. 1930s. Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, Gift of Av Rivel.
OH MAN! SNOW MAN!
This charming, easy-to-read story booklet was intended to encourage Hebrew knowledge in young children. It contains fanciful stories and brightly colored illustrations, and is a testament to the optimism and exuberance of Lithuanian Jewish life immediately preceding the Holocaust.
Ish-Sheleg (Snow Man) (belonging to a group of four booklets) Vilna, ca. 1937 Author/illustrator:B[er] Sarin Calligrapher: Shlomo Yahalom Publisher: U. Margolis and S. Klaczko 8 pp, 3 b/w + 4 color ills. + color cover ill. Collection of Yeshiva University Museum The Jean Sorkin Moldovan Collection Gift of the Jesselson Family
NEW YUM VIDEO: STEPS CLOSER TO PRAGUE - MARK PODWAL
In this video companion to an exhibition currently at Yeshiva University Museum, Artist Mark Podwal discusses his artistic engagement with Jewish Prague, and his most recent and ambitious project to design new textiles for the famed Altneuschul. The video was produced in conjunction with the exhibition at Yeshiva University Museum, Old and the New: Mark Podwal’s Textiles for the Altneuschul
(November 27, 2011 - January 15, 2012 — preview week starts November 24th)
