Po pogromie (After the Pogrom). Maurycy Minkowski, 1905. Oil on canvas.

“In 1982 I fell in love with the old people of South Miami Beach. They were the bubbes and zeydes I wish I had. These were pensioners living on social security checks in one-room apartments, telling stories of their lives and their children.”

Roberta Mazzone

Sleeping Bags, 1991-2001

Covers of the literary and artistic magazine in Yiddish “Milgroim” and in the Hebrew version “Rimon”, designed by Franzisca Baruch and Ernst Böhm, Berlin, 1922

"The Dybbuk" relates the story of a young bride possessed by the the malicious spirit of her dead beloved on the eve of her wedding. First staged in in Warsaw by the "Vilna Troupe", it is considered a seminal play in the history of Yiddish theatre. The story is based on years of research by Shloyme Ansky, who travelled between villages in Belarus and Ukraine, documenting Jewish folk beliefs and tales. The Dybbuk is known as the dislocated soul of a dead person in Eastern European Ashkenazi mythology, deriving from the Hebrew word דִּיבּוּק‎ dibbūq, meaning 'a case of attachment', which is a nominal form of the verb דָּבַק‎ dābaq 'to adhere' or 'cling'.

New Orleans ❤

Surendran Nair — Tonight I am Coming to Visit You in Your Dream and None Will See and Question Me: Be Sure to Leave Your Door Unlocked (Cuckoonebulopolis)  [oil on canvas, 2002]