Journal
The hands-on workshop in stone carving for cemetery markers gave the Madison conference a particularly grounded way to explore Jewish art, identity and…
Jewish art collectives in the Midwest occupy a fertile space between gallery practice, community life and academic inquiry. They bring together painters,…
The conference’s screening of restored Yiddish films connected Jewish visual culture with the wider programme’s interest in identity, artistic expression,…
The Jewish New Year card is a small object with a surprisingly large story. Sent for Rosh Hashanah, it has carried wishes for a sweet year while also recording…
Signing up with an online casino is more than filling in an email address and choosing a password. Registration creates a player account, establishes your…
Hebrew poetry changes character when it moves between languages, bodies and places. A translator may begin with a compact line on a page, while an artist hears…
The conference exhibit of miniature Torah arks offered a focused way to consider Jewish visual culture. Rather than presenting religious objects as decoration…
Jewish art has always travelled with people. In the shtetl, painted signs, embroidered textiles, synagogue murals, illustrated books and domestic objects…
The conference workshop on creating your own dreidel designs brought a hands-on dimension to Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture. Alongside academic…
A cat may seem an unlikely guide to Jewish visual culture. It is familiar, domestic and faintly comic, yet its appearances in painted furniture, embroidered…