hadassah ppt early jewish display
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This presentation will be offered to the Hadassah Midwest Regional Conference, "She Creates: Jewish Women in the Arts," Sunday, May 17th, 2009. The presentation examines the social and political power of early examples of Jewish exhibition and display during the time which Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah, was pioneering Zionism.TRANSCRIPT
Paige Dansinger for the Jewish Art Museum of Minnesota (JAMM), 2009.
The Social and Political Power of Early Jewish
Display
Henrietta Szold, 1913.
Gift of M. Jastrow and Alexandra Lee Levin, Jewish Museum of Maryland.
Goblet
Collection of Isaac Strauss.
The Exposition Universelle, 1878.
Knife and Cup of Circumcision
Sliver Spice Box
Collection of Cyrus Adler and I. M. Casanowicz.
Biblical Antiquities, International Exposition, Atlanta, 1895.
“Ceremonials of the Jewish Religion” exhibited along the back of the gallery.
World’s Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, 1893. Smithsonian Institute Archives.
Cover of Yiddish edition of the Official Guide to the New York World’s Fair, 1939
Collection of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
“Hanukkah Table,” one of a series of holiday tables in The Jewish Home Beautiful, a pageant by Althea O. Silverman presented at the Joint Sisterhood
Assembly at the Temple of Religion, The New York World’s Fair, 1940.
Photo courtesy of Women’s League for Conservative Judaism
Paige Dansinger for the Jewish Art Museum of Minnesota (JAMM), 2009.