Blog Posts | Jewish Art Journeys

Aug 27, 20234 min read

Glimpses of Art at Lublin's Peretz School in the 1930s, by Jennifer Stern

Rivke Berger (1911-1942). We're Breaking the Wall. (Image courtesy of The "Grodzka Gate-NN Theatre" Center, Lublin, Poland) During the...

Aug 6, 20234 min read

A Czech Jewish World Reclaimed: The Art of Karolina Kašeová, by Jennifer Stern

Karolina Kašeová, Rosh Hashone "card." Image courtesy of Karolina Kašeová. I recently had the privilege of writing about Yiddish and...

Jul 29, 20234 min read

The Spiritual Modernism of Jennings Tofel, by Jenny McComas

Jennings Tofel (American, born Poland, 1891–1959) The Red Hand, 1954 Oil on canvas 40 x 33 in. (101.6 x 83.8 cm) Gift of Arthur & Anne...

Jul 19, 20234 min read

Esther Carp: Radiance Rediscovered, by Jennifer Stern

Esther Carp exhibition at mahJ (copyright mahJ/Thibaut Chapotot) Esther Carp (b. 1897, Skierniewice, Poland; d. 1970, Créteil, France)...

Jun 29, 20234 min read

A Historic Exhibition of Jewish Artists in Vilnius, Lithuania, by Jennifer Stern

Foreground: Emmanuel Mané-Katz (1894-1962). Reading, 1931. Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ), Paris. Background: Emmanuel...

Jun 12, 20234 min read

Concealed Identity, by Jenny McComas

Northern Italy or Southern Germany (?) Wedding Ring in the Form of a Synagogue, ca. 1700 Silver, 1 ¾ x 1 x 9/16 in. Gift of Frederick...

May 16, 20233 min read

Welcome to Jewish Art Journeys, by Jenny McComas

Northern Italy or Southern Germany (?) Wedding Ring in the Form of a Synagogue, ca. 1700 Silver, 1 ¾ x 1 x 9/16 in. Gift of Frederick...

May 16, 20233 min read

Welcome to Jewish Art Journeys, by Jennifer Stern

Joseph Budko (Płońsk, 1888-Jerusalem, 1940). Daughter of Israel. Illustration of a poem by H.N. Bialik. Woodcut. Before 1923. Musée d'art...