Journal
Jewish artists have long used visual culture, performance, literature, and public installation to confront antisemitism. Their work can document persecution,…
The significance of the conference’s location reaches beyond the practical choice of a host city. Madison, Wisconsin, provided a distinctive setting for…
Digital platforms have changed how people present, debate, and preserve identity. For Jewish artists and communities, social media can function as a gallery,…
The opening day of Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture established the conference as a gathering shaped by curiosity, exchange, and creative risk. Held…
The conference’s partnership with local museums and galleries gave “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” a public dimension that extended beyond…
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…