Journal
The hamsa, a hand-shaped symbol often associated with protection, blessing and good fortune, occupies a complicated place in Jewish visual culture. It appears…
A conference tour of the Chabad Art Collection in Madison offers a close look at how Jewish identity is carried through images, objects, movement and memory.…
The Practicing Jews conference in Madison, Wisconsin has long attracted scholars, artists, and community organisers who want to probe the textures of…
Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture, a week-long conference held in Madison, Wisconsin, brought together academics, artists, and community members to…
The conference exhibit of contemporary Jewish tattoo designs offered a vivid way to consider how identity is carried on the body. As part of “Practicing Jews:…
The shofar is one of the oldest wind instruments still played in continuous ritual use, its raw blast cutting through centuries of prayer. When a master carver…
The Practicing Jews conference in Madison assembled a remarkable cross-section of artists, scholars, and community members to examine how visual culture…
The Practicing Jews conference in Madison, Wisconsin, unfolded across a single intensive week, drawing together scholars, practising artists and curious…
The live calligraphy demonstration of Hebrew scripts offered a close, practical view of how Jewish visual culture is made. At the Madison conference, visitors…
The lecture on the history of Jewish wedding canopies in the Midwest offered a focused way to explore how religious objects carry memory. Within the…