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This Fall’s Jewish Cultural Events

8/13/2019

 
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The Khust synagogue. Photo by J. Fixler via wikimedia/creative Commons.
PictureA pin from the Colmar Treasure. Jeweled brooch, from the Colmar Treasure, second quarter 14th century. Gilded silver, sapphires, rubies, garnet, and pearls, Musée de Cluny – Musée national du Moyen Âge,  RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY (Cl.20672)
“Is it the memory of times long gone, or a presentiment of times to come? Does this old animal perhaps know more than the three generations that foregather in the synagogue each time?”

With so many brief but sublime sentences packed into the short passage comprising Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel “In Our Synagogue,” it is indeed difficult to choose just one excerpt to quote. The reader learns about the stealthy rodent living for years in the narrator’s house of worship, whose coat of fur has acquired the blue-green color of the building’s ancient walls. Well-known to the congregants, especially its women, the animal is not concealed by its faulty camouflage. 

Completed in 2016, “In the Synagogue,” named Best Short Film at this year’s Odessa Film Festival, is inspired by the existing content of Kafka’s story. Director Ivan Orlenko shot portions of his 30-minute black and white movie with Yiddish dialogue in Kiev and inside the mid-19th century Khust synagogue—in use throughout World War II—in southwestern Ukraine.  Conveying an elegiac sense of loss, as well as tragedy, the visual impact of these places amplifies the original tale, now experienced through the hindsight of the Holocaust. As the director notes of this region: “…now only a few preserved synagogues and neglected cemeteries are left…This picture of devastation, the forgotten world, made me film in Yiddish. It is this sense of a long-lost time that predetermined that maximum attention would be drawn to the signs of that time, language and everyday life. Time running indifferently and inexorably, only sometimes allowing the story to finish, is probably what my film is about…”

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The impact of Jewish life on European culture was felt centuries before the dawn of the modern era. The Metropolitan Museum’s Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park is presenting “The Colmar Treasure: A Medieval Jewish Legacy,” an exhibition which shines a light on some of the rare and important medieval Judaica on loan from Paris’ Cluny Museum, almost all of which has never been seen in the United States.
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Discovered in 1863 in the wall of a confectionary located in the Alsatian town of Colmar, The Colmar Treasure dates from the mid-14th century and includes an inscribed dome-shaped Jewish wedding ring, rings and other jewelry embellished with gems and semi-precious stones, and buttons and coins rendered in silver and gold, as well as accessories like belt fragments and headpieces. Among the household items is a tiny, meticulously designed silver key, presumably kept by the lady of the house.

It is assumed that these valuable items were owned by at least one family and were hidden for safekeeping during the time before the town’s Jewish community, who were believed to have poisoned the wells to spread plague, was immolated en masse.  Thereafter, Jews did not return to Colmar for a quarter century.  The installation of The Colmar Treasure is supplemented by the Cloisters’ illuminated books, manuscripts and decorative arts, and includes objects borrowed from the Jewish Theological Seminary and private collections. The show is on view through January 12th, 2020.
 
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The legacy of Europe’s Jewish culture has become key to combatting the rise in anti-Semitism that has occurred worldwide.  Noting this on its website, the European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage (www.jewishheritage.org) sponsored by B’nai B’rith Europe and other Jewish organizations in cooperation with the National Library of Israel has announced that its European Days of Jewish Culture (EDJC) will be designated as a celebration honoring its 20th anniversary.  Held each September, wide-ranging programs organized under a unifying theme are produced by local communities in more than 400 cities in 28 countries.
 
Yale University Press will release another entry in its excellent “Jewish Lives” series of books intended for the general reader on November 19th.  A biography which underscores the continued relevance and vivacity of his songs and musicals, “Irving Berlin: New York Genius” by James Kaplan examines the life of the composer (1888-1989) and his musical output through the history of the frenetic, ever-changing kaleidoscope of the city where he spent most of his life.


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Cheryl Kempler is an art and music specialist who works in the B'nai B'rith International Curatorial Office and writes about history and Jewish culture for B’nai B’rith Magazine. To view some of her additional content, click here.

Passover Judaica From the B'nai B'rith Klutznick Collection

4/23/2019

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Manuscripts, diaries, Torah binders, menorahs, amulets, coins, notary stamps, wedding dresses, Yiddish theater playbills: all of these and much more, from nearly every country and every century, are defined as “Judaica.”  Many of these works will always be mysterious; it will always be impossible to know who made and owned them, or their country of origin, since Jewish craftsmen were itinerant and largely self-taught.  Making things more complex, non-Jews would sometimes create Jewish works.  Yet collectors and scholars appreciate Judaica’s diversity and cherish it as a connection to the past.  Found in homes, synagogues and temples, objects that were part of Jewish life for thousands of years are still relevant today.

Housed at Cincinnati’s Skirball Museum, the B’nai B’rith Klutznick Collection contains some fascinating examples of Passover Judaica from all over the world. Some tell us a lot. Stamps punched into the back of a Passover plate made in the city of Arboga, Sweden, in 1779 reveal the initials of its maker, pewter smith Baltazar Rokus. A second set of initials may be those of the engraver—perhaps there was more than one—and/or the owner. Bold Hebrew calligraphy engraved on the plate’s lip references the order of the Seder, while a Paschal lamb—an ancient sacrifice—prances between two spring blossoms on top of the banderole.

The illustration on the early 20th-century Cup of Elijah was etched in the crystal by an anonymous but skilled artisan from Bohemia, renowned for glass-making.  Here, the prophet blows his shofar for the Messiah, who rides a donkey. Similar images are found in 17th-century Italian Haggadahs, while its biblical source is from the book of Zechariah: “Rejoice Daughter of Zion! See your king comes to you…triumphant and victorious, lowly, riding on an ass.” Glimpsed at right is Jerusalem, whose high castle turrets come straight out of medieval Jewish and Christian illuminated manuscripts.
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A Seder set inspired by…Japan?  Completed in 1969, this silver Seder “compendium” does double duty as sculpture and ritual artifact.  Clean geometric shapes of the bowls for the ritual foods are offset by their undulating stems, including one decorated with a gingko leaf addition, that reference 19th-century Japanese art.  Mr. Fishman, a Guggenheim-winning fellowship winner on the faculty at Brown University since 1965, is known for his three-dimensional works in a wide-ranging variety of media, which have been exhibited worldwide.


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Cheryl Kempler is an art and music specialist who works in the B'nai B'rith International Curatorial Office and writes about history and Jewish culture for B’nai B’rith Magazine. To view some of her additional content, click here.

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New Book About Rod Serling

2/5/2019

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PictureCover collage by Rob Cooper. Design by Pete Halverson. Courtesy of University Press of Mississippi.
In hundreds of scripts that mated the psychology of horror with the nuclear nightmare of postwar America, Rod Serling put the blame for the annellation that was just around the corner squarely where it belonged…. on us. “Rod Serling: His Life, Work and Imagination” (University Press of Mississippi) by author and “Twilight Zone” expert Nicholas Parisi is a new 500-page biography of the man whose name alone has come to distill the condition of something eerily out of whack with the rational. In it, he shines the spotlight on the episodes of the now 60-year-old television show that has resonated with millions, of every generation.

He also documents Serling’s contributions, in whole or in part, to other well-known material produced for film, television and radio. Among these works are “Requiem for a Heavyweight,” a drama from the so-called Golden Age of Television, whose only ethical character, a brain-damaged boxer, is destroyed by the manager he loves, and the 1964 Cold War-themed movie “Seven Days in May,” still capable of packing a thrill. Pursuing his career immediately after World War II, when the particularly brutal combat he experienced added to the dark vision of the world that he had formed during childhood, Serling left a considerable legacy behind when he died at the age of 50 in 1975. 

On the “Twilight Zone,” man’s inhumanity to man occurs on a grand scale but starts small, with the seemingly inconsequential aggression of “the little guy.”  Transported, as Sterling intones in his well-known introduction, to a “middle ground between light and shadow,” viewers recognized this place as being like, but not like, home. There, blindly solipsistic men, women and often even children who have faith in their own moral superiority, but little else, end up decimating, rather than repairing the world. Their smugness and ignorance lead to the subjugation of the vulnerable, the election of malevolent leaders and the trusting of hungry martians.  Is there anyone capable of compassion or tenderness at all? In a recurrent theme, “The Twilight Zone’s” creator looks not to humans, but robots, to answer our longing.  It is this inherent pessimism that places Serling within the 20th century Jewish literary tradition. For him, even the powerless determined their own destiny, and this time, their destiny was the apocalypse. 

Special Judaica Collection to Make its New York Debut
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The Barr Foundation of Virginia Beach, Virginia, has launched the first American tour of its impressive Judaica collection. The installation features more than 200 traditional and contemporary Torah pointers—an implement used by the reader to retain his or her place in the text of the assigned passage, in compliance with the prohibition of touching the Torah directly.  Formerly on exhibit in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the show will move to New York City, where “Guiding Hands” will be on view from February through May 2019 at Temple Emanu-El’s Hector and Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The exhibit will be augmented by examples of Torah accoutrements from the New York synagogue’s own acquisitions.
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Carved, cast and fabricated, the styles of these pointers, called the yad, the Hebrew word for hand, reveal a diversity of aesthetics, and most interestingly, their construction and materials are on occasion dictated by the settings and situations in which they were created.  Dating from World War II, a yad from the South Pacific theater in the foundation’s collection was made from used shell casings, while a 19th-century gilded Austrian pointer embellished with turquoise and garnets was probably commissioned by a private patron, for worship in the home.  Add to these the collection’s masterpieces of design by renowned artisans, including Wendell Castle’s three-part work, a stylized rendering of an elongated silver pointer finger, complete with one extra segment, nestling in the palm of a hand-shaped stand, itself resting on a wooden table, or Michele Oka-Doner’s Surrealist-inspired sculpture-pointer, whose multiplicity of corkscrew tendrils emanate like hair or tree branches from a bronze torso-shaped handle, and there will be much to make the exhibit a memorable one.

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American artist Bruce Metcalf’s golden lily pointer, included in the “Guiding Hands” exhibit. Courtesy of the Barr Foundation of Virginia

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​​Cheryl Kempler is an art and music specialist who works in the B'nai B'rith International Curatorial Office and writes about history and Jewish culture for B’nai B’rith Magazine. To view some of her additional content, click here.

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Afro Semitic Voices at the Jewish Museum

5/3/2018

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Now on view at New York’s Jewish Museum, two recent acquisitions by artists of color redefine and expand on the forms and meanings of Judaica, examples of which are exhibited in the same gallery, to construct a message which is both inclusive and contemporary.

Nigerian-born artist ruby onyinyechi amanze’s “Marriage Contract” is an elegant mixed media work inspired by the design, text and purpose of the traditional ketubah. Yet, the drawing’s Hebrew and English words, a free form poem composed by amanze herself, addresses not the financial obligations of the groom, but the mutual pledge of spiritual and emotional commitment given freely by both partners. Redolent of the vows exchanged at a modern-day wedding ceremony, the poem’s theme is one of liberation: “Our love sets free the best that is in us now….fear not being quenched or diluted...I humbly participate in choosing to love you and accepting the love you shine on me.”

Noting that members of her immediate family adhere to Jewish customs — the Ibo people of southeastern Nigeria subscribe to the belief that are the descendents of a lost tribe of Israel —the Brooklyn-based amanze has recognized this aspect of her heritage as well. Floating in a sea of infinite white space, surrounded by motifs that include foliage, flowers, insects and birds, the anonymous couple that she portrays in “Marriage Ceremony” may or may not be Black and/or Jewish. This man and woman transcend the specifics of race and religion, to personify each and every pair of lovers — of all beliefs, races and cultures — who journey through life together. 

Garnering headlines after his painting of former President Barack Obama was unveiled at Washington, D.C.’s National Portrait Gallery in February, the prominent American artist Kehinde Wiley casts his mostly blue jeans and tee-shirt clad sitters as modern royalty, in the manner of Renaissance portraitists like Bronzino. Rendered in eye-popping hues of pinks, blues and purples, Wiley’s picture of Alios Itzhak, an Ethiopian man who lives in Jerusalem, is displayed next to the elaborate 19th century mizrah (an ornamental paper cut containing both sacred and secular imagery, hung on the eastern wall to direct worshippers towards Jerusalem) that became the source for the painting’s decorative background. Sharing the stage with Itzhak, the mizrah acts as a dominant element, one which is emblematic of his Jewish identity.  The  painting is part of a series of portraits of Jewish and Arab men which Wiley has named “World Stage: Israel.”

Just as the floral iconography of the Obama portrait tells the story of the president’s personal history, Wiley’s incorporation of the mizrah into “Alios Itzhak” deepens the viewer’s knowledge of the sitter. Here, the paper cut’s energized tendrils grow and twine forward, from background to the front of the picture plane, to literally embrace Itzhak. The picture’s frame, topped with a carving of the Decalogue and confronted lions of Judah, is an essential component of the art work.

Over on the West Side, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Sound Archives has launched an online exhibit devoted to the work of pioneering collector Ruth Rubin, a singer and scholar who dedicated her life to recording the Yiddish song. Over 1100 of them, made between 1946 and the 1970s, can now be heard on the site, http://exhibitions.yivo.org/, which also includes lectures, concerts, videos, documents and photos.

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​Cheryl Kempler is an art and music specialist who works in the B'nai B'rith International Curatorial Office and writes about history and Jewish culture for B’nai B’rith Magazine. To view some of her additional content, click here.

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