The Szyk Haggadah

Author: Arthur Szyk
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1647004462
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Arthur Szyk (pronounced “Shick”) created his magnificent Haggadah in !--?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /--Lodz, on the eve of the Nazi occupation of his native Poland. There is no Haggadah like it, before or since, filled with sumptuous paintings of Jewish heroes and stunning calligraphy.!--?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /-- This edition, the first since 1940 to be reproduced from Szyk’s original art, boasts a newly commissioned and extremely practical English text by Rabbi Byron L. Sherwin, ideal for use at any family Seder, and a special commentary section by Rabbi Sherwin and Irvin Ungar gives insight into both the rituals of the Seder and Szyk’s rich illustrations. The Szyk Haggadah will transform the Seder, bringing the story of the Exodus from Egypt into a more contemporary light.

Arthur Szyk

Author: Michael Berenbaum
Publisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781911282082
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An indispensable and timely publication on the life and work of the great Polish-Jewish-American artist-activist Arthur Szyk.

Justice Illuminated

Author: Irvin Ungar
Publisher: Frog Limited
ISBN: 9781583940105
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 95

Book Description
A collection of twentieth century political cartoonist, Szyk.

Arthur Szyk

Author: Joseph P. Ansell
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1909821195
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 381

Book Description
Best known among Jews for his illustrated Haggadah, Arthur Szyk was also a political artist whose work went beyond a narrow definition of the Jewish cause. In the early twentieth century he worked tirelessly to strengthen the Jews’ position in Poland; later, in the United States, he put his art at the service of the war effort, and then on behalf of the Zionist cause. A singular contribution to the history of Polish-Jewish relations and of Jewish art.

The Szyk Haggadah

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Haggadah
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Freedom Illuminated

Author: Arthur Szyk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979954627
Category : Haggadah
Languages : en
Pages : 247

Book Description

Goering's Man in Paris

Author: Jonathan Petropoulos
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300251920
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 455

Book Description
A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world "[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators connected to Nazi looting. . . . What emerges from Petropoulos's research is a portrait of a charismatic and nefarious figure who tainted everyone he touched."--Nina Siegal, New York Times "Readers of art history and WWII biographies will appreciate this engrossing deep dive into one of the world's most prolific art looters."--Publishers Weekly Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler's art looting agency in Paris, he went on to help supervise the systematic theft and distribution of more than thirty thousand artworks, taken largely from French Jews, and to assist Göring in amassing an enormous private art collection. By the 1950s Lohse was officially denazified but was back in the art dealing world, offering masterpieces of dubious origin to American museums. After his death, dozens of paintings by Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro, among others, were found in his Zurich bank vault and adorning the walls of his Munich home. Jonathan Petropoulos spent nearly a decade interviewing Lohse and continues to serve as an expert witness for Holocaust restitution cases. Here he tells the story of Lohse's life, offering a critical examination of the postwar art world.

Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink

Author: Marc Michael Epstein
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140086562X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
A superbly illustrated history of five centuries of Jewish manuscripts The love of books in the Jewish tradition extends back over many centuries, and the ways of interpreting those books are as myriad as the traditions themselves. Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink offers the first full survey of Jewish illuminated manuscripts, ranging from their origins in the Middle Ages to the present day. Featuring some of the most beautiful examples of Jewish art of all time—including hand-illustrated versions of the Bible, the Haggadah, the prayer book, marriage documents, and other beloved Jewish texts—the book introduces readers to the history of these manuscripts and their interpretation. Edited by Marc Michael Epstein with contributions from leading experts, this sumptuous volume features a lively and informative text, showing how Jewish aesthetic tastes and iconography overlapped with and diverged from those of Christianity, Islam, and other traditions. Featured manuscripts were commissioned by Jews and produced by Jews and non-Jews over many centuries, and represent Eastern and Western perspectives and the views of both pietistic and liberal communities across the Diaspora, including Europe, Israel, the Middle East, and Africa. Magnificently illustrated with pages from hundreds of manuscripts, many previously unpublished or rarely seen, Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink offers surprising new perspectives on Jewish life, presenting the books of the People of the Book as never before.

Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context

Author: Edna Nahshon
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004227172
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407

Book Description
A collection of essays by an international cadre of theater scholars, which addresses Jewish theater practitioners, playwrights, critics, financiers and audiences roles in the development of the European and American theater.

Honeyky Hanukah

Author: Woody Guthrie
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375982396
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25

Book Description
Latkes and goody things all over town, It’s Honeyky Hanukah time. In Woody Guthrie’s rowdy, funny celebration of a Hanukah night, a young boy and his dog move merrily from house to house, gathering up family and friends for a big feast at Bubbe’s.