Temima Gezari is and artist and a Art Educator
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Temima Gezari Artist and Educator
Art In a Jewish Day.wmv
Here I discuss a piece entitled “Klezmer Musician” at the Jewish Museum of Art in Tulsa Oklahoma.
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The Washington Haggadah: The Life of a Jewish Book
Learn more about The Washington Haggadah: Medieval jewish art in Context on view at the Met April 5, 2011–June 26, 2011: http://met.org/eaZKug
David Stern, Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature, University of Pennsylvania
This presentation features the Washington Haggadah, one of the most important illustrated Hebrew manuscripts preserved in an American public collection and an unprecedented loan from the Library of Congress. A Haggadah is the book used at the Passover seder, the ritual meal that commemorates the exodus of the ancient Israelites from Egypt. Although the essential components of the text were established in the second century, the Haggadah was first made into an independent, illustrated book in the Middle Ages.
With captivating images in tempera and gold on parchment, the Washington Haggadah bears the date January 29, 1478, and the signature of the renowned scribe and illuminator Joel ben Simeon. Born in Cologne around 1420, Joel ben Simeon worked in both Germany and northern Italy. Ten Hebrew manuscripts bearing his signature survive, and haggadot were something of a specialty. Certain details of the text of the Washington Haggadah—including an early, specific reference to horseradish as the bitter herb to be used at the meal—distinguish this book as one created while Joel ben Simeon was working in Germany.
The Haggadah offers particularly strong testimony to the vitality of visual arts in Jewish life. Its margins display numerous depictions of medieval Jews preparing for and participating in the seder: removing leavened bread from the house and burning it, roasting the lamb, and drinking wine.
The Haggadah is displayed alongside medieval works of art in other media, including German glass vessels and Italian ceramics similar to those shown in the manuscript.
Among nearly twenty thousand Hebrew books in the Library of Congress (the earliest of which come from Thomas Jefferson’s library), the Washington Haggadah, purchased before 1920, is of unique importance as a work of art. Its presentation at the Metropolitan Museum inaugurates a series of loans, each of which will focus on a single, illuminated medieval Hebrew manuscript, that will take place over the next three years in the Main Building’s medieval art galleries. Each loan will be set in the context of related treasures from the Museum’s collection.
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The Art of the Kvetch: Jewish Humor as Secularism | The New School
Jewish Studies at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts | http://www.newschool.edu/lang/jewish-studies
The modern tradition of Jewish humor emerged from the same ideological ferment that produced Zionism, Liberal Judaism, Modern Orthodoxy, and a wide variety of secular forms of Jewish identity. To this day, Jewish humor reinforces the bond between Jews even as globalization has brought it to millions of non-Jews. Is this lively tradition the result of a seed of humor planted deep in Jewish textual traditions, or is Jewish humor an exercise in self- loathing by an insecure minority? Having transcended its Yiddish forms in American comedy (from Lenny Bruce to Larry David), is Jewish humor a way for Jews to be Jews in a genre at once particular and universally accessible?
Jewish Cultural Studies | http://www.newschool.edu/jewishculture
THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES | http://www.newschool.edu/generalstudies
Participants include:
Michael Wex, author of Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won’t Do) and Born to Kvetch; Noah Isenberg, author of Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism and editor and translator of The Face of East European Jewry by Arnold Zweig; Jeffrey Israel, author of a dissertation on Jewish humor and politics; and Val Vinokur, author of The Trace of Judaism: Dostoevsky, Mandelstam, Babel, Levinas.
Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts | http://www.newschool.edu/lang
Presented by Jewish Studies at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts and the Jewish Cultural Studies Program.
THE NEW SCHOOL | http://www.newschool.edu
Location: Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building
04/27/2011 6:30 p.m.
Duration : 1:38:5
Help with Jewish Art information?
I’m writing a paper, and in my paper I have to include facts about jewish artwork.
I was wondering if someone could give me some information, along with websites, that talks about the history of Jewish art, its restrictions on what can or cannot be done, if it has to portray something specific, different types of art, and so on.
P.S. It would be best if the sources were non-wikipedia related.
Anything can be done as long as permission is received from the committee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaacov_Agam
Edit: wiki articles are a starting point for you to do further investigation. Or do you want others to do your whole assignment?
Did Hitler start hating Jews before or after he was turned down from art school?
Perhaps the ones who insulted his art and assaulted his pride were Jewish? Perhaps his wrath was the result of one huge damaged ego operating under a subconscious, displaced, and suppressed rage meting out a dictatorship built on one major association fallacy? If so, grudges sure run deep.
Unfortunately, Hitler, like a great many others of his age, grew up hating Jews.
There was great prejudice against Jews all over Europe then.
It was just how things were there then.
It’s one of the reasons many European Jews had already migrated to the US and Canada —- even many places in South America had / has large Jewish populations —- due to miserable prejudices in Europe.
Artist Talk | Susan Hiller
How does a contemporary artist represent the lost history of German-Jewish life? Susan Hiller, a film and video artist, spent three years photographing more than 300 street signs all over Germany whose names refer to a previous Jewish presence. The result, the exhibition “The J.Street Project”, uses the apparent banality of street names to explore unexpected ways that landscape can memorialize a people’s history.
Hiller, who lives in London, took visitors through the exhibition, explaining both her artistic process and her unique approach to connecting landscape and history.
View the “Artist Talk: Susan Hiller” program page: http://www.thecjm.org/index.php?option=com_ccevents&scope=prgm&task=detail&oid=213
View “The J. Street Project” exhibition page: http://www.thecjm.org/index.php?option=com_ccevents&scope=exbt&task=detail&oid=5
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In the Magnes Archives: Arriving to San Francisco (1848-1900)
This video chronicles a visit to the Western Jewish Americana archives of The Magnes Collection of jewish art and Life, which are currently housed in the processing facility of The Bancroft Library, by author Frances Dinkelspiel, accompanied by Alla Efimova, Francesco Spagnolo and Lara Michels.
The archives are now housed together, under the same roof, for the first time since they were created in 1967.
The Magnes team is currently selecting items for an upcoming exhibition, which will open in March of 2011 at The Bancroft Library, focused on the history of Jewish immigration from Germany to the San Francisco Bay Area in the second part of the 19th century.
To learn more about The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, go to http://www.magnes.org, or search the collection at http://www.magnesalm.org .
Videography by Francesco Spagnolo
Created on September 13, 2010 using FlipShare.
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Iranian Dancer – Persian Jewish Legacy Art Exhibition
An Iranian folk dancer performs a traditional persian dance at a USC Hillel art exhibition “Celebrating the Persian Jewish Legacy” on March 9, 2010. This video was recorded by journalist Karmel Melamed.
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Jewish mentality is discrete in the way of thinking while Europeans are continues?
I’d say solving matters in discrete way will be a jewish way while doing it in a continuous way will be a european way?
kind of like contentious mathematics. vs discrete mathematics
Analog computers vs digital computers.
A homogeneous society vs a minority based society.
A classical painting vs a modern art scrambling.
A smooth society transition vs a shock wave transition.
An artistic homogeneous creative mind vs a material oriented discrete mind.
So there are no European Jews, Jews and Europeans are two different things? You speak in stereotypes and you haven’t been in a Jewish community yet, that’s for sure. Sorry, but your theory is simply nonsense.