“Unrolling The Torah”, Oil Painting By Mané-Katz, From 1938

Happy Hanukkah!

Synagogue Hanukkah lamp Brass Poland, early 19th century Collection of Yeshiva University Museum Gift of Erica and Ludwig Jesselson This Hanukkah lamp was formerly in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection

Sean Raspet • “Texture Map (Normal) (C03),” 2014 • The Critical Resistance Benefit Auction • Aug 12 — Aug 26

Artistic Stuff. Paintings Blog. Rainbow-colored drawings by Fiona Woodcock, posted on the blog… via Tumblr

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -The Box with a Gilded Mask                    

Six designers, six cities. Discover Rome, Italy with Dior’s perfumer-creator François Demachy on Diormag.com.

Yemenite Jewish children, Sana'a, Yemen, Circa 1909. By Hermann Burchardt.

Title: Mizrah Artist: Wolf Kurzman, American, b. Ukraine, 1865-1945                           Origin: Ukraine Date: 1903 Medium: Ink and watercolor on cut-out paper Size: 17 3/8 × 14 in. (44.1 × 35.6 cm) Description: “The creator of this masterful papercut was a watchmaker in Podolia (present-day Ukraine), who came to the United States in the 1920s with his five children. Three years after he had cut it, he added the name of his mother Pessya, and the day of her death in 1906. The work mizrah appears in a medallion on the double-headed eagle. Snakes twine around the columns Jachin and Boaz, a common motif in Eastern European Jewish papercuts. Flanking the pillars are two griffins whose origins derive from the guardian cherubim described in detail in Exodus. They were half lion, half eagle, and had human faces.“ Source: Jewish Museum

Happy Mother’s Day!

Elizabeth Taylor

Historian of Jewish life in medieval Egypt wins MacArthur ‘genius award’: http://dlvr.it/CJHfz3