Journal
Jewish dance offers a powerful way to examine how identity is performed, inherited, challenged, and revised. Movement can communicate religious belonging,…
The Passover Haggadah is often treated as a practical booklet: a guide to blessings, questions, songs, symbols, and the retelling of the Exodus. Yet it is also…
The week-long Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture conference in Madison, Wisconsin, brought visual documentation into close conversation with…
Yiddish theater developed as a flexible, multilingual art form shaped by migration, humor, music, political change, and communal memory. Its stages held…
A conference devoted to Jewish art, identity, and culture becomes richer when younger participants are invited into the conversation. The youth program…
Jewish art collectives bring artists, scholars, and communities into a shared process of inquiry. Their work may include painting, installation, photography,…
“Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” grew from a conviction that Jewish life cannot be understood through religious texts and institutions alone. Its…
“Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” brings together people who might otherwise encounter Jewish life through separate academic, artistic, or…
The Role of Humor in Jewish Visual Art and Performance is closely tied to the ways artists interpret memory, belonging, faith, gender, and everyday life. In…
A conference about Jewish art, identity, and culture must make room for many ways of seeing, hearing, moving, communicating, and participating. Accessibility…