On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Remembering Persecuted Jews
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August Sander, Persecuted Jews, c. 1938, printed 1990In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 — the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau — as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, the day was established to commemorate victims of the Nazis and to raise awareness, thereby preventing future genocide. Drawing from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN resolution condemns all forms of “religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communi ..read more
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The Most Popular Works of 2016 in the Jewish Museum Online Collection
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by The Jewish Museum
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The Jewish Museum collection spans 4,000 years of Jewish culture through nearly 30,000 objects from around the world. From fine art to Judaica, the collection speaks to the global Jewish experience, whether by virtue of the subject depicted or because a work represents a significant contribution to art and Jewish cultural history. In a year that was as tumultuous as 2016, many took to art of the past to search for answers about the present. Some explored these works of art online. For the second year in row, we examined the most viewed works in the Jewish Museum online collection based on Goog ..read more
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Objects Tell Stories: Hanukkah Lamps in the Jewish Museum Collection
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Hanukkah Lamp, Stolin (Belarus), c. 1885. © The Jewish Museum, New York.Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, begins at sundown on December 24. Families all over the world will celebrate by singing traditional songs and enjoying sizzling latkes beside glowing candlelight. Every winter, Hanukkah commemorates the bravery of the Ancient Israelites who defeated their oppressors during the Maccabean Revolt. Candles are lit on the eight nights of Hanukkah to symbolically represent the triumph of light over darkness. Hanukkah Lamp Eastern Galicia or Western Ukraine, 1752/53The Jewish Museum is ho ..read more
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Jewish Advertising on Television
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by The Jewish Museum
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Installation view of the exhibition The Television Project: You Don’t Have To Be Jewish. September 16, 2016 — February 12, 2017. The Jewish Museum, NY. Photo by: David Heald.The Television Project, an exhibition series at the Jewish Museum, introduces Jewish Museum visitors to a dynamic part of its collection: the National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting, the largest and most comprehensive body of broadcast materials on 20th century Jewish culture in the United States with more than 4,000 holdings. The latest installment of the series, You Don’t Have to Be Jewish, explores advertising produced ..read more
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Objects Tell Stories: Simchat Torah in the Jewish Museum Collection
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Torah Scroll, Ioánnina, Greece, mid-late 19th century. The Jewish Museum, New York. Gift of Leon and Selma Cohen in memory of Morris and Mollie Cohen. © Photo The Jewish Museum, New York by Ardon Bar Hama.The Torah, as the Old Testament is called in Hebrew, is the core narrative of the Jewish faith. Every Sabbath, a portion of the Torah is chanted in the synagogue. It takes a year to complete the entire cycle through the five major portions of the Torah, also called the five books of Moses or the Pentateuch. Simchat Torah celebrates the completion and restarting of the cycle of reading the ent ..read more
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Objects Tell Stories: Sukkot in the Jewish Museum Collection
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by The Jewish Museum
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Allan Wexler, Study Model for Sukkah, 1998–85. Photographer: Richard Goodbody, Photo © The Jewish Museum, New York.Sukkot is one of three Jewish holidays known as the pilgrimage festivals. In ancient Israel at this time of the year, throngs of people would make a pilgrimage to the Holy Temple in Jerusalem so that the priests could offer sacrifices to God on their behalf. Like the other pilgrimage holidays, Sukkot has both an agricultural and a historical significance. Agriculturally, Sukkot celebrates the fall harvest; historically, it commemorates the 40-year period during which the Children ..read more
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Objects Tell Stories: Yom Kippur in the Jewish Museum Collection
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Shofar, Dieburg (Germany), 1781/82. Photographer: Richard Goodbody, Photo © The Jewish Museum, New York. Gift of Carrie Bachrach Abraham.Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, begins today at sundown. The holiest day of the year in the Jewish calendar, it marks the end of the Days of Awe, a ten-day cycle during the Jewish High Holidays that begins with the Jewish New Year at Rosh Hashanah. The holiday is observed with a day of fasting and prayer as penance for past sins. The shofar — an ancient instrument crafted from a ram’s horn — blasts its plaintive wail tomorrow at sunset to signal the ..read more
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Wishing You a Sweet and Happy 5777
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New Year Greeting, Germany, Early 20th Century. The Jewish Museum, New YorkAs Rosh Hashanah approaches to mark the beginning of the Jewish New Year, you might be lucky enough to find your mailbox filled with cards wishing you a sweet and happy 5777. The tradition of sending these cards began in Europe in the early 19th century and continues to this day. New Year Greeting. Germany, early 20th century. The Jewish Museum, New York.While Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of a cycle of Jewish holidays that offer a time of reflection and renewal, these early New Year’s cards were a way of expressing af ..read more
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Chava Wolpert Richard, 1933–2015
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Chava Wolpert Richard, Seder Plate, 1975Chava Wolpert Richard was an artist who dedicated her career to the creation of Jewish ceremonial art. Sadly, she passed away last year, and I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to her and the work she accomplished. Richard was the recipient of several design awards, but that kind of recognition was not as important to her as serving the Jewish community. She once claimed that “making Jewish ceremonial art is the only meaningful thing to me artistically. I love the opportunity to help people connect to their Judaism in a very real way.” G ..read more
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Objects Tell Stories: Shavuot in the Jewish Museum Collection
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Harry Lieberman, Shavuot — The Harvest, 1974Shavuot, also known as the Feast of Weeks, begins at dusk on Saturday, June 11 and lasts until sundown on Monday, June 13. It follows seven weeks after Passover and like Passover, the holiday is significant both agriculturally and spiritually. Shavuot marks the end of the barley harvest, the beginning of the wheat harvest, and celebrates the first summer crops of fruit in ancient times. Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Shavuot (Pentecost), 1880Historically, the holiday commemorates when God gave the Torah to the Israelites at Mount Sinai, and many communitie ..read more
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