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Saturday, November 22 2008
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Articles By Menachem Wecker (115 Articles)
1) Reviving Sacha Kolin
Menachem Wecker | Posted Oct 29 2008
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Lisa Thaler's obsession with Sacha Kolin dates back to a modernism show in Winnetka, Illinois, in 1998.
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2) Taking The Diaspora's Portrait
Menachem Wecker | Posted Oct 15 2008
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Walking through Chrystie Sherman's solo show at the Austrian Embassy in Washington will almost inevitably make viewers rethink their notions not only of what it means to be a Jew, but also what Jews look like.
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3) The Frog, the Demons, and the Jewish Star
Menachem Wecker | Posted Oct 01 2008
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Perhaps upholding Leviticus 19:31, which insists, "Do not turn to those who worship Ob or to wizards; do not desire to become defiled by them,"
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4) [Biblical Scenes]: Two Exhibits At The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Menachem Wecker | Posted Sep 17 2008
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When Abraham built the altar on Mount Moriah, it must have been very painful to know each step brought him closer to losing Isaac, whom the Bible goes out of its way to call his "only son, whom he loved."
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5) Innovation and Imitation in Albrecht Dürer's Samson
Menachem Wecker | Posted Sep 03 2008
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German artist, Albrecht Dürer's woodcut "Samson Slaying the Lion" (1497-98) shows the warrior-prophet with the unkempt hair and beard of a Nazarite, sitting on the back of a lion, whose jaws he pulls apart.
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6) Chassidic Surfers And Psychedelic Judaism: Daniel Weinstein's Art
Menachem Wecker | Posted Aug 20 2008
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Viewers who read Daniel Weinstein's list of artistic influences on his website will get the impression they are dealing with an unusual sort of Judaica, even before they see the art.
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7) Listening To The Paint's Music: Marilyn Banner's Encaustics
Menachem Wecker | Posted Aug 06 2008
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Marilyn Banner's encaustic painting "Listening" (2008) at first appears to be ironically titled.
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8) A Confrontation Between Image and Text
Menachem Wecker | Posted Jul 23 2008
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What do you get when you mix a Jesuit publishing company, a Reform Jewish scholar, an Orthodox Jewish painter, and a thesis on human-divine encounters?
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9) A Microcosm of the Afterlife: The Catskills' Four Seasons Lodge
Menachem Wecker | Posted Jul 09 2008
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When Andrew Jacobs heard about a bungalow colony of Holocaust survivors on Geiger Road in the Catskills, his mind unleashed a series of pardonable stereotypes.
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10) Should We Feel Guilty For Enjoying Holocaust Art?
Menachem Wecker | Posted Jun 25 2008
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Some of history's greatest paintings have explored tragedy, from Francisco Goya's "Saturn Devouring his Son" and etching series on "The Disasters of War" to Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" to John Singer Sargent's "Gassed."
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11) 'To The Land That I Will Show You': Mapping The Holy Land
Menachem Wecker | Posted Jun 12 2008
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Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1972) imagines a dialogue between the explorer Marco Polo and the emperor Kublai Khan.
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12) A Regal Silhouette: King David The Musical
Menachem Wecker | Posted Jun 04 2008
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Light and shadow typically assume moral implications in literature, where light is often divine and dark symbolizes the unknown and the scary.
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13) Is It Creepy To Remember Someone Else's Tragedy?
Menachem Wecker | Posted May 21 2008
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There is perhaps a paradox afoot in conventional American Jewish views on Holocaust memory.
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14) Chanting Kaddish For Willy Loman
Menachem Wecker | Posted May 07 2008
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When Linda Loman sees that the only people attending her husband Willy's funeral are her sons Biff and Happy and neighbors Charley and Bernard, she wonders what happened to the multitude of mourners that Willy had always promised.
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15) A Siddur With Word Balloons
Menachem Wecker | Posted Apr 23 2008
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Howard Salmon first celebrated his bar mitzvah as a 44-year-old. He and six others attended a class at Temple Emanu-El in Tucson, Arizona, and each one prepared one aliyah of the Torah reading.
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16) Is It Kosher To Laugh At Swastikas?
Menachem Wecker | Posted Apr 09 2008
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Swastikas have been popping up lately in the most unusual places.
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17) Solomonic Judgment In Arthur Miller's 'The Price'
Menachem Wecker | Posted Mar 26 2008
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Pegging Arthur Miller a Jewish playwright is a dangerous enterprise.
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18) Hungry For Literature And For More Heaven
Menachem Wecker | Posted Mar 12 2008
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The opening sentence of Saul Bellow's 1953 novel, The Adventures of Augie March, which begins, "I am an American, Chicago born - Chicago, that somber city - and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style," arguably did as much as any novel to put Chicago on this century's literary map.
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19) Fantastically Real Kabbalah Paintings
Menachem Wecker | Posted Feb 27 2008
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Some artists' iconoclastic, bohemian behavior gets them into trouble.
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20) Voluntary And Compulsory Martyrdom: Spinoza And M. Rabinowitz
Menachem Wecker | Posted Feb 13 2008
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At first glance, Moritz Rabinowitz and Baruch Spinoza have very little in common.
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