Unified Field - Jeremy Miranda , 2026.

American , b. 1980 -

The homogenization of vastly different histories into a grand narrative of Jewish trauma points to a desire to tell a palatable story about how Zionism became hegemonic in American Jewish life. Like the original deployment of the lachrymose conception of Jewish history, it relieves Jews of political agency while making historic trauma the focal point of Jewish identity. This time, what gets lost in the mythologized Jewish past is an understanding of the political, economic, and social forces that shaped what scholar Shaul Magid calls the “Zionization of American Jewish life,” like the centralization of financial and communal resources by Jewish communal leadership toward support for the State of Israel. Zionism was not simply adopted by a terrified rank-and-file American Jewry, nor is it a trauma response today; it was, and is, a political project, with specific and evolving strategies aimed at particular, and—it should be emphasized—violent aims.

“Does the world expect us to be well-behaved victims while we are getting killed? For us to be slaughtered without making a noise? We decided to defend our people with whatever weapons we had.”

Uganda Raffia Baskets, Bukedo & Raffia bowls brightly coloured dyes and inventive, progressive patterns make these handmade baskets popular for wall displays.

Weavers construct these baskets by wrapping colourfully dyed palm raffia around a coil of bukedo, the local term in Uganda for banana leaf stalks.