Tag: cultural
On The Passing Of Victor D. Sanua
Victor D. Sanua, Ph.D., z"l, a pioneer in cross-cultural studies of mental illness, was also known for his studies on American Jewish communities and the Jews of Egypt, passed away July 12, at the age of 88 in Brooklyn, New York.
Title: The Sun’s Special Blessing
Jewish day school and yeshiva classroom around the world are buzzing with excitement as children are being taught the special meaning and significance of Birkas HaChama.
Title: The Sun’s Special Blessing
Jewish day school and yeshiva classroom around the world are buzzing with excitement as children are being taught the special meaning and significance of Birkas HaChama.
Polish Events In Israel
With all the missiles and rockets being fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip by Hamas and the retaliatory bombing of Hamas targets by Israel there has been a very large rise in anti-Israel demonstrations around the world.
Polish Events In Israel
With all the missiles and rockets being fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip by Hamas and the retaliatory bombing of Hamas targets by Israel there has been a very large rise in anti-Israel demonstrations around the world.
Siona Benjamin: Finding Home
Siona Benjamin is a most unusual artist determined to recast Jewish art as a dynamic, cross-cultural phenomenon.
Gilded Lions And Jeweled Horses: Woodcarving From The Synagogue To The Carousel
Much like the Jewish people themselves, the legacy of Jewish Art has miraculously survived seemingly endless assaults over the past two centuries.
Jewish Enough In LA?
The L.A Story, a selection of works from 10 contemporary Los Angeles Jewish artists currently at the Hebrew Union College - Institute of Religion Museum, poses the question of what exactly constitutes Jewish Art and what is its condition today on the West Coast.
Title: Guide To Jewish New York City
Oscar Israelowitz has outdone himself with the recently published, entirely updated guide to Jewish sights, sounds and fragrances of interest in all of New York City.
Dancing The Ballets Russes, Jewish Art Deco At The MFA, Boston
It stands at 120 feet by 720 feet, and it weighs one million pounds.
How to Paint Jewish Culture In Five Easy Steps: The New Jersey Transcultural Initiative...
Pinpointing modern art's origin yields a confusing situation; leading art history books claim many "fathers" of Modern Art: Gauguin, van Gogh, Whistler's "Portrait of the Artist's Mother" and sometimes Monet's "Impression: Sunrise."
A Glimpse Of Meaning Russian Post-Modernists At YUM
The need to reassert a shattered cultural identity should be familiar to Jews.
Multiple Identities – Oded Halahmy And Russian Post-Modernists At YUM
Who are you? Who am I? Questions of cultural identity among artists have raged from the
early twentieth century to yesterday's memoir.
The Outsider Complex Jewish Folk Artists Of Our Time
The outsider artist has become a fixture of the postmodern age. There are exhibitions, books, symposia and museums documenting artists who create outside the accepted norms of "fine art." The French artist Jean Dubuffet along with Andre Breton first defined outsider art as Art Brut (Raw Art) in 1945 and collected examples of work they considered "uncooked" by either classical or contemporary cultural influences.
