DRINK UP AND COOOL DOWN-AUGUST IS VACATION MONTH!
As the temperature continues to climb in August, stay cool by drinking lots and lots of H20. Take a note from these Jews drinking mineral water in Central Park on September 14, 1872.
Printed in color on paper. Page 720 from Harper’s Weekly showing men, women and children socializing and drinking the water; refers reader to p. 726.
“Sunday morning in Central park Jews drinking mineral water” Yeshiva University Museum, New York (1991.170)
JERUSALEM WISHES YOU WERE HERE- AUGUST IS VACATION MONTH!
Summer is a time for travel and the best way to share your vacation memories is to send a postcard. This vintage postcard, made in Jerusalem, portrays two women clothed from head to toe in rich fabrics. Postcards are more personal than a tweet and they are definitely the cheapest souvenir to buy abroad.
Postcard with divided back. Front: two women, one in white dress with dark red cloak; the other in overgarment of red, green, blue and brown stripes, wearing a green face veil decorated with red flowers, and red shoes. Front annotated: Women of Jerusalem.
Postcard Femme juives en costume de sortie Yeshiva University Museum, New York (2006.014)
FLIP FLOP THROUGH SUMMER- AUGUST IS VACATION MONTH!
These sparkling gold sandals, from a 1960s Purim costume worn by Amy Chapman, look quite similar to the trendy Havaianas flip flops worn today. Whether you are ready to jump through a cascading waterfall or just escape the rain on your vacation travels, don’t forget to protect your Jewish tootsies.
Purim costume worn by Amy Chapman consisting of: (a) skirt of striped pinks, red, white and yellow over garment, trimmed with gold and sequins (65 x 20); (b) white t-shirt trimmed w. gold and sequins; striped pinks, red, white and yellow over garment, trimmed with gold and sequins (65 x 20); c) gold veil; d) necklace of coinos hanging from gold braid; e) flip flops.
1960 Purim costume Yeshiva University Museum New York (1994.520). Gift of Pauline Brill Diamond.
DON’T FORGET TO PACK YOUR…UM, BREAD?!-AUGUST IS VACATION MONTH!
Packing only means one thing: vacation! This packer would not even leave a loaf of bread behind.
In all seriousness though, this is a photograph from a brilliant exhibit at the Yeshiva University Museum There is a Mirror in My Heart: Reflections on a Righteous Grandfather, which is on view through August 28, 2011. Artist Sebastian Mendes offers a personal artistic response to the actions taken by his grandfather Aristides de Sousa Mendes, who, as Portuguese Consul General in Bordeaux, France in June 1940, engineered one of the greatest rescue acts of the Holocaust, saving an estimated 30,000 refugees. Through drawings, sculptures, and an in-gallery performance that metaphorically reenacts his grandfather’s deeds, this exhibition gives visual form to this act of courage and heroism through art.
Suitcase Reliqueries with preserved bread. Modified suitcase sculpture objects, each containing one dried and preserved modified loaf of bread sculpture, Preserved Bread Suitcase. Ten (10) vintage suitcases, without contents.
NYC TAC - PRINT TREATMENT OF TWO CITIES
Yesterday I found myself in conversation on the ever-changing and seemingly ever-fluctuating character of cities. Tel Aviv and New York are no different, each a port city filled with diverse and dynamic populations, jostling together and against one another to negotiate the beauties and struggles of urban life. This lovely image is on the more beautiful side, and abstraction of the feel of those urban spaces.
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With the passing of so many emerging Jewish cultural organizations over the past few years, as well as the near collapse, collapse, and impending collapses of various other more established Jewish cultural outfits, I wonder if we are seeing a radical shift in how Jews will encounter Jewish culture. Will it now be just one of a number of cultures open to cultural mercurians, Jewish and non-Jewish alike? Will the economics of Jewish organizational life give way to the almost total ‘relification’ of Jewish culture? I worry.
Check out Jo Ellen Green Kaiser’s discussion from Zeek regarding some recent collapses and speculations on the emerging trends. This is indeed a scary time on the cultural front, and that most certainly includes the Jewish cultural front.
Check out the Jews on Vinyl show page for information about the exhibition, and for some samples of the music that’ll appear in the gallery!
Image: Marty Allen and Steve Rossi, Batman and Rubin, Mercury, 1967, Courtesy of Josh Kun and Roger Bennett
AND WITH THIS QUILT, I THEE WED - ANOTHER COLLECTION WEDDING PIECE
In 1938, Belle Rosenbaum was 14, and engaged to be married. That year, in the short time between her engagement and the wedding, Belle created this lovely piece to mark both her transition in life, and to observe the soon-to-be bond with her husband.
Nuptial quilt created by Belle Rosenbaum, 1938 between her engagement and marriage. Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, New York (1993.181). Gift of the artist.
DER YIDDISHER COWBOY MUSIK … MUSIC… YYYYEP!
Get pumped for the upcoming exhibition at YUM, Jews on Vinyl where you’ll get to learn about how Jewish culture became central to American popular music in the 1960s. Opening July 24th. Yyyyep!
Check out YUM’s upcoming exhibitions: http://yumuseum.org/index.php?pg=3&time=upcoming
Thanks forzionssake!
Yiddish country music — only in America.
LADY IN OFF-WHITE - MORE WEDDING STUFF!
Anna Cecile Shapiro wore this dress for her marriage to Harold Levy November 8, 1925 at the Jewish Center in New York City. It typifies formal beaded costume of the Jazz Age flapper with its dropped waist, shortened hem, the geometric designs accenting the simple planes of the dress, and the multiple panels of the skirt which moved as she did and provided tantalizing glimpses of her knees.
WEDDING DRESS New York, 1925 Dress: silk satin. Gift of Aline Kamlet (1998.331)
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