Tag Archives: Jewish art

The Jews are Not The Nation Without Art (Hertz Pentateuch)

Posted on March 4, 2019 by

I thought I was done with the Hertz commentary, that he has nothing much to say after a few things. But then there was this important surprise in these comments about art in his famous Pentateuch & Haftarahs from 1936. … Continue reading →

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(Tabernacle) Jewish Art is Jewish Feminist Philosophy (Exodus 35-36)

Posted on March 3, 2019 by

When art is the subject, and art and Judaism, it’s time to retire the Second Commandment and the Golden Calf. Look instead to the concluding chapters of the book of Exodus for a theory of Jewish Art. The first thing … Continue reading →

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(What Are These Things) Material Judaism & Priestly Religion (Sarah Kayla Jacobs)

Posted on February 17, 2019 by

Yesterday at Ansche Chesed, Sarah Kaya Jacobs gave these words about some of the most arcane material in the Hebrew Bible: matters relating to the Tabernacle cult and the vestments of the High Priest, in particular. The material appears in … Continue reading →

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(Lachrymose) Floating Jews and Other Black Squares (Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich)

Posted on November 21, 2018 by

O Me O My, I’ve been lachrymose, this time at the Jewish Museum having seen Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922. The exhibit is super cool, showing art made by Chagall with these two masters of the … Continue reading →

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Hunger Art (Chaim Soutine)

Posted on August 22, 2018 by

“Still Life with Herring” sounds like a Jewish spoof on the French fine art tradition. From the same milieu of Russian Jews in Paris, Chaim Soutine is the anti-Chagall. There is nothing dreamy about his work. There is no lift … Continue reading →

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Did the Jewish Museum Just Break Its Permanent Collection?

Posted on February 21, 2018 by

I read here in the New York Times about the new re-organization of the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum in New York. The old exhibition was a standard historical chronology of “the Jewish experience.” The thing was heavy with … Continue reading →

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(Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art) Digital Archive

Posted on October 2, 2017 by

Saw this piece at Hyperallergic about “the Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art, a recently launched website that represents the world’s largest online database of Jewish art.” “Made public by the Center in August, the website features over 260,000 entries that catalogue … Continue reading →

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