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[k0sher]

this is a sideblog dedicated to collecting & archiving jewish art, judaica, photos, books, etc from around the world - it runs on a queue that posts randomly 2x daily, with occasional extra posts for things that I want to save immediately

if you have any suggestions for art or media you'd like to see archived, please send me an ask! anons are off because the internet is cruel, but if you'd like me to answer your ask privately (or not answer at all) please just let me know!

i am a queer, trans, ashkenazi reconstructionist jew with a particular interest in Yiddish. i am 22 & reside on occupied kalapuya land (PNW of the US).

this blog is explicitly pro-palestine, and will share art and information from pro-palestine jews, the jewish labor bund, and jewish history & cultures prior to the state of israel (not exclusively, but still) - I make an effort not to reblog anything that is explicitly (or implicitly) zionist or anti-palestine

most of my tags are self-explanatory, but I've tagged this post with the tags I use most often to make navigation easier

be kind & best wishes 💖

[k0sher]

for personal reasons, mainly due to my own health issues, i have decided to distance myself from tumblr & try to stop using it pretty much all together. i am not deleting this account, everything on here will remain as-is, but this website is not good for me. as much as i love this blog i think this is best.

i may be back at some point in the future, but i hope not. i wish you all well. keep fighting for what you believe in & remember you are loved. <3

[gliklofhameln]

Torah Ark curtain by Siona Shimshi (Israeli, b. 1939). Made in the United States, c. 1960.

[gliklofhameln]

I Find

1993

Jenifer Bar Lev, Israeli, b. United States., 1948

Mixed media on canvas

[bobemajses]

Amuletic headdress worn by Jewish women of Greece and Turkey while pregnant. It has the names of the 3 angels that captured Lilith embroidered onto it. From Smyrna, Ottoman Empire, 19th century

[morethansalad]

Vegan Grilled Cheese Star of David Hanukkah Sandwiches

[mental-mona]

In Judaism joy is the supreme religious emotion. Here we are, in a world filled with beauty. Every breath we breathe is the spirit of God within us. Around us is the love that moves the sun and all the stars. We are here because someone wanted us to be. The soul that celebrates, sings.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Studies in Spirituality, p. 258

[nesyanast]

Art: Ephraim Moses Lilien

Quote: Elie Wiesel (Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry)

[radicaljews]

Disturb us, from Mishkan Tefilah, 173.

[kuttithevangu]

“Don’t get into pointless arguments with jerks on the Internet” –the rabbis

[metapianycist]

Image transcript:

Just as it is a mitzvah, a commandment, to reprove someone who will heed the reproof, so too is it a mitzvah not to say what will not be heeded (Talmud, Yevamot 65b)

[heyclickadee-deactivated2025121]

You know, I’m not Jewish, but I really think I and my fellow non-Jews need to take a step back, notice that basically every Jewish holiday these days opens with antisemitic violence and Jews being attacked or killed, and realize that it’s not only a serious issue but that it’s our issue to fix.

[k0sher]

I do not usually make posts like this but my heart goes out to the families & loved ones of the victims of the Bondi Beach Shooting in Austrailia. May their memories be a blessing. The Jewish community of Austrailia has faced some truly horrific antisemitism over the last few years and I can’t even put into words how much my heart hurts for you. Your pain is real and does not go unheard.

[gliklofhameln]

Rosh Hashanah greeting, attributed to Happy Jack (born Angokwazhuk) (Inupiaq, b. Alaska, c. 1870-1918), Nome, Alaska, United States, 1910, engraved walrus tus and gold inset

With the arrival of whalers in the 19th century, Inuit carvers expanded their repertoires as they exchanged techniques and materials. The complexity and diversity of Inuit subjects increased as more sophisticated interpretations displaced schematic figures and linear ornamentation. The most innovative and influential of the carvers was the Alaskan Inuit Angokwazhuk, known as “Happy Jack.” He is credited with the introduction, after 1892, of the art of engraving walrus tusks with a very fine needle, which resulted in an almost perfect imitation of newspaper halftones and fabric textures.

On this tusk, he ably recorded the faces and attire of a religiously observant Jewish couple, believed to have run a store in Nome. The woman seems to be wearing a wig and is dressed in typical turn-of-the-century style. The man’s beard is neatly trimmed; his top hat suggests a holiday or formal occasion. The Hebrew inscription delivers the traditional Jewish New Year greeting: “May you be inscribed for a good year, 5671 [1910].” In English is added: “Nome, Alaska.”

[bialerwochenblat]

A stunning cover of Tsvishn lebn un toyt (Between Life and Death) by Edgar Allan Poe, translated into Yiddish by A. Plotnikov, Warsaw 1930.

[gliklofhameln]

Zeh ha-Sefer Tehillim (This Book of Psalms), Morris (Moshe) Weinberg, illustrated manuscript on paper, Chicago: 1910-1912

This monumental Hebrew Book of Psalms was painstakingly crafted by the talented scribe-artist Moshe Weinberg over a three year period from 1910 to 1912. It is an outstanding and highly creative example of the flowering of American Jewish calligraphic art in the early years of the twentieth century.

Weinberg was born in 1854 in the small Polish village of Kolne. Though the exact date of his migration to the United States is unknown, his intentions in creating this volume are clearly stated in his introduction:

“When I arrived in this land… and saw its ways and how so many of the People of the Lord are steeped in backbreaking labor, exhausting the body, resting neither day nor night, from seeking to feed themselves and their extensive families; They have not sufficient time even to pray properly, three times a day; to say nothing of the recitation of Psalms, which is totally unfamiliar to them …so I said to myself, I will publish this precious book, with large letters and beautiful pictures, pleasing to the eye.”

Weinberg published a lithographic facsimile edition of this manuscript in 1912.

[bialerwochenblat]

Posters of Yiddish films screened in various cinemas in pre-war Poland. 1. Tkies kaf, 2. On a heym, 3. Gelekhter durkh trern, 4. Der dibek, 5.A brivele der mamen. 

[housesofbudapest]

Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia, Synagogue