Journal

Historical artifacts can make Jewish history feel immediate. A handwritten prayer book, a family photograph, a textile, or a ritual object carries evidence of…

Jewish artists often work across several cultural registers at once. Their audiences may include people who recognize ritual references immediately, viewers…

The closing ceremony of Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture offered more than a formal ending to a week-long conference in Madison, Wisconsin. It…

At the “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” conference in Madison, Wisconsin, scholarship moved beyond the boundaries of the lecture hall. The…

Hebrew calligraphy carries centuries of visual memory into contemporary design. Its square letterforms, distinctive proportions, and right-to-left direction…

“Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” brought academics, artists, and community members together for a week of conversation in Madison, Wisconsin. Its…

Dance can preserve histories that resist straightforward narration. A gesture, pause, formation, or repeated pathway may carry traces of displacement, fear,…

Jewish art carries memory across time. A family photograph, ritual object, dance, painting, or contemporary installation can preserve inherited knowledge while…

A conference title can do more than identify an event. It can establish a question, set an emotional tone, and invite participants to reconsider familiar…

Jewish art carries histories that are personal, communal, religious, political, and geographic. A single painting, photograph, textile, dance performance, or…