JHOM - Judaica Art Gallery


BORDERS and BOUNDARIES: MAPS of the HOLY LAND, 15TH-19TH CENTURIES
Maps of the Holy land as spiritual landscapes, beacons to itinerant voyagers, blueprints for vicarious pilgrimages, didactic tools, and as embodiments of the yearnings and historical memories of a Judeo-Christian sensibility.

The Jewish Journey: Frederic Brenner's Photographic Odyssey
Four Sons in Illustrated Haggadot
Many Faces of Ruth

Maps of the Land of Israel:
15th-19th centuries
Hanukkiot: 18th-20th centuries

Spice Containers

Fishes

Menorot: Art deco designs

Angels

Celebrating Purim

Trees
Lions
Celebrating Passover


OTHER ARTICLES OF INTEREST

For the candle and the spices: A Yemenite (16th cent.) poem for the Havdalah ceremony, by Sa’adiah

Communism and the Had Gadya story: A sequence of watercolors by Russian Jewish artist El Lissitzky, by Haia Friedberg

Hebrew letters in Jewish art: An introduction, by Ida Huberman

The crown motif in Jewish art: The deeper and broader symbolism, by Ida Huberman

Early 20th century menorah designs, Bezalel Institute of Art

Hanukkah lamps, 18th-20th centuries

The Angel of Death in Jewish Micrography

Reuven Rubin's "Goldfish Vendor"

Judas' red hair and the Jews: Antipathy to red hair

SCHWEBEL
PAINTINGS of KING DAVID Works by American-Israeli artist Schwebel move back and forth between past and present; some appear timeless in background and dress, while many others are in modern settings. Includes audio webcast interview with the artist.
AVNER MORIAH: GATHERING at MOUNT SINAI / WOMEN'S ZODIAC
Two stunning multi-paneled murals by Israeli artist Avner Moriah inspired by Biblical themes and incorporating elements from midrashic literature. The murals are displayed at the Jewish Theological Seminary (NY).
  FREDERIC BRENNER: EXILE AT HOME
Brenner's photograph essay focuses on families photographed in their native countries and later in Israel following their immigration. The work evokes questions regarding definitions of "exile" and "home." Includes audio webcast interview with the photographer.
DOCUMENTORS of the DREAM: PIONEER JEWISH PHOTOGRAPHERS in the LAND of ISRAEL 1890-1933
Chart the origins and development of local photography seen through the eyes of Jewish photographers, Documentors is the work of photographer and photo historian Vivienne Silver-Brody. Includes audio webcast interview with photographer.
MORITZ OPPENHEIM: JEWISH IDENTITY in 19TH-CENTURY ART
German Jewish artist Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1800-1882), considered by many art historians the greatest Jewish genre painter of his time, was known as the "Painter of the Rothschilds and the Rothschild of Painters."
SAMUEL BAK: HOLOCAUST PAINTINGS
Bak's paintings in the Landscapes of Jewish Experience present relics of ruin and vestiges of order, a wasteland of Jewish tradition struggling out of its disarray. The feature includes webcast interview, commentary, and a flash slideshow.
AKIVA KENNETH SEGAN: UNDER THE WINGS OF GOD
In his Holocaust art series Under the Wings of God and Shoah Dreams, artist Akiva Kenneth Segan portrays some one hundred Holocaust victims, many of whom had been imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto. The drawings depict the victims with wings, an ironic metaphor for freedom, shelter and redemption.

 

   
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