Jewish Art and Jewish People
between Israel and Diaspora
Edward van Voolen
Timeline
The Image of Judaism
A Living Text
Hebrew Bible, Spain, 14th-Century
Manuscript
Hebrew Bible, printed in Amsterdam,
1724-27
A Jewish Pompeii
Synagogue with Wail Paintings,
Dura-Europos, Syria, 244-45 CE
Creation, Redemption, Revelation
Mosaic Floor
Beth Alpha Synagogue, Israel, 6th Century CE
The Precious Legacy of a Glorious Past
The Jewish Quarter of Prague,
since the 13th century
Spain’s Golden Age
Synagogue’Santa Maria la Blanca,’Toledo,
Spain, 13th Century
God’s Favorite Fish
The Meal of the Righteous in Paradise,
Ambrosian Bible
UIm, Germany, 1236-38
Wandering with a Promise
Sarajevo Haggadah, Barcelona, Spain,
14th Century
The Dutch Golden Age
17th-Century Synagogues in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Hanukkab: A Political Story
Pieter Robol It
Hanukkah Lamp, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, 1753
Jewish Emancipation
and Jewish Art
Loyalty to Faith and Fatherland
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
Return of the Jewish Volunteer from the
Wars of Liberation to His Family Still Living
in Accordance with Old Customs, 1833-34
An Oriental Wedding Feast
Eugene Oelacroix
Jewish Wedding in Morocco, ca. 1839
Rejoicing in Splendor
Solomon Alexander Halt
The Feast of Rejoicing of the Law at the
Synagogue of Leghorn (Livorno), Italy, 1850
The Self and the Exotic
Eduard Knoblauch, Friedrich August Stuler
New Synagogue, Oranienburgerstrasse,
Berlin, Germany, 1859-66
A Day of Penitence and Repentance
Maurycy Gottlieb
Jews Praying in the Synagogue on
Yom Kippur, 1878
Of Pots and Pans: Keeping Kosher
Max Liebermann
Self-portrait with Kitchen Still-life, 1873
A Rembrandt Reborn
Jozef IsraeIs
Son of the Ancient People, 1889
A Secular Jewish Painter
Camille Pissarro
La Place du Theatre Francais, 1898
Contemporary Jewish Portraits
Samuel Hirszenberg
Portrait of a Jewish Writer, 1903
Amedeo Modigliani
The Jewess (La Juive), 1907-08
Musical Visions
Arnold Schoenberg
Red Gaze, 1910
Escape to a Better Future?
Maurycy Minkowski
After the Pogrom, ca. 1910
The Lost World of the Shtetl
Issachar Ryback
The Old Synagogue, 1917
Singing Jewish History
El Lissitzky
’and then came the fire and burnt the stick’
Had Gadya, 1919
Jewish Life in the Theatre
Marc Chagall
Introduction to the Jewish Theatre, 1920
What is in a Name?
Man Ray
The Enigma of Isidore Ducasse, 1920-71
Jewish Pioneers in Palestine
Reuven Robin
First Fruits, 1923
Blood and Tears: Non-Jewish Jewish Art?
Chaim Soutine
Carcass of Beef, ca. 192S
Dreams of Emancipation
Lesser Ury
Moses Sees the Promised Land before
his Death, 1927-28
Tracing Genealogy
Frida Kahlo
My Grandparents, My Parents, and I
(Family Tree), 1936
Human Dignity
Jankel Adler
Two Rabbis, 1942
Holocaust and
its Remembrance
’This monster, which we try to kill ...’
Jacques Lipchitz
David and Goliath, 1933
Defamed Art
Otto Freundlich
Composition, 1938
A Holocaust of Books
Micha Ullman
Library, Berlin, 1993-94
Departure into Exile
Charlotte Salomon
Life? Or Theatre?, 1940-42
A Passage into Death
Dani Karavan
Passages, Homage to Walter Benjamin,
Portbou, Spain, 1989-94
Facing Disaster
Felix Nussbaum
Self-Portrait in Death Shroud
(Group Portrait), 1942
War and Destruction
Ossip Zadkine
The Destroyed City, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands, 1948-51
Remembering the Holocaust in Germany
Menashe Kadishman
Fallen Leaves, 1997--99
National Memory and Identity
Moshe Safdie
Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, Jerusalem,
Israel, 1997-2005
Jewish Art in the Modern World
Questions of Justice
Ben Shahn
Sound in the Mulberry Tree, 1948
Abstract Monotheism
Barnett Newman
The Name I, 1949 /Zim Zum II, 1985
Secret Signs
Lee Krasner
Composition, 1949
Flying Letters
Morris Louis
Charred Journal, 1951
Modernizing the Synagogue
Erich Mendelsohn
Park Synagogue, Cleveland, Ohio, USA,
1946-52
Forging Israeli Art
Mordecai Ardon
Train of Numbers, 1962
The Realm of Shadows
Louise Nevelson
Homage to 6,000,000 (I), 1964
The Presence of the Divine
Mark Rothko
Rothko Chapel, Houston,Texas,
1965-67/1971
An Unbuilt Synagogue, An Unfulfilled
Dream
Louis I. Kahn
Hurva Synagogue, Jerusalem, Israel,
1967-74 (Unbuilt)
Fragility
Eva Hesse
Untitled (Rope Piece), 1970
Sacred Space in the Desert
Zvi Hecker
Synagogue at the Military Academy
Campus, Mitzpeh Ramon, Negev Desert,
Israel, 1969-71
The Golem’s Dream of Power
R. B. Kitaj
The Jewish School (Drawing a Golem), 1980
The Shield of David
Jim Dine
Painting (Cruising) (La Chasse), 1981
Little Isaac, where are you going?
Moshe Gershuni
Isaac! Isaac!, 1982
Ghosts of the Past
Jonathan Borofsky
Berlin Dream, 1982
A Breakable Image of History
Larry Rivers
History of Matzah:The Story of the Jews,
1982- 84
Minimal Form and Maximal Meaning
Sol LeWitt
White Pyramid / Black Form (Dedicated to
the Missing Jews), Munster, Germany, 1987
Black Form: Memorial to the Missing Jews,
Hamburg-Altona, Germany, 1989
Beth Shalom Synagogue, Chester,
Connecticut, USA, 1999
A Jewish Lexicon
Grisha Bruskin
Alefbet Lexicon, 1987-88
’Let there be light’
Zelig Segal
’In memory of the destruction of the
Temple,’ Sabbath Candlesticks, 1988
Lessons of Darkness
Christian Boltanski
The Festival of Purim, 1988
A Whisper of Angels
Anish Kapoor
It Is Man / Installation with Angels, 1989-90
What Words May Mean
Lawrence Weiner
Licht = (Licht), 1990
The Thin Line of Survival
Richard Serra
The Drowned and the Saved, 1991-92,
Synagogue Stommeln, Germany
Divine Creativity
Michal Na’aman
Lord of Colors (in white), 1998
’The drumming’s now at its height’
Nancy Spero
The Ballad of Marie Sanders, the Jew’s
Whore III (Brecht), 1998
A Shrine of Absence Filled With Life
Daniel Libeskind
Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
1989-99/2001
Rebellion against Conventions
Nan Goldin
Self-portrait on Bridge, Golden River,
Silver Hill Hospital, Connecticut, 1998
The Fictitious Jewish Artist
Ilya Kabakov
Life and Creativity of Charles Rosenthal, 1999
Conflicts
Michal Rovner
Co-Existence Three Stages, 2002
Telling History
William Kentridge
Porter Series - Noah Tapestry, 2001
Acknowledgements, Biography
Bibliography
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