An Archive of My OwnOctober 2 – November 9, 2013 Meet the artist, Nino Biniashvili, on Sunday, October 6 from 12pm to 6pm. In An Archive of My Own, Nino Biniashvili commits acts of artistic recovery. She rescues rare archival materials from obscurity and transforms them into compelling art exploring Georgian-Jewish experience. In an exhibition that challenges traditional methods of history-making, Ms. Biniashvili brings history home. She…
All images: Collection of Yeshiva University Museum Shana Tova! The start of this year marks a new beginning for us here at the Center for a Jewish History. We’re opening the new David Berg Rare Book Room to showcase treasures from the collections of our five partners, launching a program season packed with everything from concerts to symposia, and embarking on an exploration of the Jewish community of…
Shavuot papercut, possibly from Eastern Europe, early 20th Century. Yeshiva University Museum. For more, visit the Center for Jewish History’s Flickr photostream.Click here to connect with the Center for Jewish History on Facebook.
Abraham and Isaac. Larry Mohr. 1990. Sculpture, bronze, cast. Yeshiva University Museum Collections. For more, visit the Center for Jewish History’s Flickr photostream.Click here to connect with the Center for Jewish History on Facebook.
La Toilette d’Esther. Neilson, Jacques de Troy, Jean Francois Gobelins. Tapestry from the 2nd half of the 18th century. Gobelins, France. YU Museum. For more, visit the Center for Jewish History’s Flickr photostream.Click here to connect with the Center for Jewish History on Facebook.
Out of the Archives: Calendar Artsubmitted by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History This hand-drawn calendar card is from February 1920. The artist is Lucie Ritter Marcus (1895-1967), wife of German-Jewish lawyer Ernst Marcus. More information about the Marcuses can be found in the Leo Baeck Institute’s Ernst Marcus (Breslau) Collection, [AR 25006]. To conduct your own search of the collections,…
Reading the Torah. Three men in front of Torah Ark, one using a pointer to point to text. Early 20th century. Scrap, paper, printed and embossed. Yeshiva University Museum Collections. For more, visit the Center for Jewish History’s Flickr photostream.Click here to connect with the Center for Jewish History on Facebook.