this time i will praise the Lord

Currently working on an artistic project dedicated to abandoned jewish cemeteries (in Hungary) and their amazing symbols, such as these lions! Please check the Art of Abandoned Jewish Cemeteries site to follow for more details of the project.

Please follow the project here and on FB, soon we will launch a kickstarter too in order to print a zine with pictures, linocuts and texts on these abandoned cemeteries and their unique symbols.

USA, 1980, cotton, cotton-thread embroidery

Rome, Italy, 1964, silk

L: 135; W: 87 cm

Alana Newhouse, NYT Book Review of Stranger in a Strange Land by George Prochnik (via kuttithevangu)

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Collection item of the day:  Shavuot papercut late 19th/early 20th century 

Sint Pieterskerk, Leuven, Belgium

Jewish cemetery (1926) by Kurt Hielscher  // Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The full-length figures of the protagonists of the Purim story that embellish this scroll are set in niches on the sides of the square text panels, emulating the format used for the title pages of Hebrew books. Along the upper part of the scroll is a series of portraits of other characters in roundels flanked by birds; on the lower part are detailed vignettes of the story of Purim, flanked by lions in roundels.

The desperate search for a haven for Jews seeking to flee Germany after Hitler’s rise to power coincided with the period when Cuba sank to the depths of economic depression and was shaken by political turmoil that weakened its pull forces towards European immigration. (…) The annexation of Austria and the policy of coercive emigration taken by the Gestapo expedited the departure of Jews whose liberation from concentration camps was contingent upon their immediate emigration; under these circumstances, the pull forces of the countries of destination were no longer taken into consideration. Read more here.

Ethiopian Jewish girls prepare for Shavuot with baskets of fruits and vegetables. May, 2013.

It was presented to Mordecai Rumkowski, head of the Judenrat in the Lodz Ghetto by Ziso Eybeshitz who ran the paper factory in the Ghetto. The menorah was found in the ruins of Rumkowski’s home in the Ghetto.”

Nicholas Roerich  - Moses the Leader, 1926

British Library, Additional 16577, detail of f. 44v (‘Detail of a caption framed by the curved tail of a dragon, at Shabbat Parah’). Festival prayer book, Italian rite. 3rd quarter of the 15th century