ANNOUNCEMENTS

Events

Announcements

Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough? by Jeffrey Abt. Part of Between the Lines: Author Conversations from The Library of JTS. Tuesday, November 12, 1:00–2:00 pm ET, Online. Eminent art historian Jeffrey Abt joins JTS for a discussion of his new book on the Jewish Museum of New York, which was founded in 1904 in The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary and housed there for more than four decades. RSVP

Synagogues of the South with Dr. Sam Gruber. Sponsored by the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience. Thursday, November 14, 6:00-7:00 pm ET, Online. In this talk Dr. Gruber presents a mostly forgotten history of Synagogue architecture in South, based on his research for the online exhibition Synagogues of South, created by the College of Charleston. RSVP

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Publications/Videos

Be Fruitful! The Etrog in Jewish Art, Culture, and History. Edited by Warren Klein, Sharon Liberman Mintz and Joshua Teplitsky.

“Buildings, Places and Spaces,” a series of illustrated recorded talks about synagogues by architectural historian Samuel D. Gruber. Click here.

The Center for Jewish Art issued a report on their latest expedition to Vilnius, Lithuania to research Holocaust memorial monuments. https://cja.huji.ac.il/hmm/pics/reports/Holocaust_Memorial_Monuments_in_Vilnius_Report_2022.pdf

The expedition is part of the project to create a database on Holocaust Memorial Monuments (https://cja.huji.ac.il/hmm/browser.php?mode=main).

Also from The Center for Jewish Art, a new publication A Legacy Revealed: The Izmir Collection of Ceremonial Synagogue Textiles by Bracha Yaniv and Tamar Shadmi.

To celebrate Israel’s 75th birthday, David Matlow of Toronto, Canada selected 75 artifacts from his personal collection of Zionist and Herzl memorabilia and shared them in a new book, 75 Treasures: Celebrating Israel at Seventy-Five. Available for free download at https://herzlcollection.com/75-treasures

Shimon Iaikerson stars in several new videos about Hebrew Manuscripts, a project of Beit Avi Chai. Episode 1 (Handwritten Medieval Jewish Books): https://youtu.be/esyY9c3ou9k, Episode 2 (Rolled Books):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hz0FiO9_9M, Episode 3 (Handwritten Medieval Jewish Books): https://youtu.be/V9wLFpCDb8A

Sam Gruber gave a talk about the Arthur Szyk designed ark at Forest Hills Jewish Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZZHo6KG20Q

Sam Gruber also gave a talk at the opening of the JTS Library’s current exhibition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd36JsV9rbQ

Exhibitions

All About Herzl at the Herbert & Eileen Bernard Museum, Temple Emanu-El, Through January 23, 2025.

The Museum at Eldridge Street has an exhibition of Tobi Kahn’s work up through November 10. Also a new installation of a mosaic floor by Mark Podwal can be seen.