See the legacy of 12th-century rabbi, doctor and thinker Moses Maimonides on display in NY.
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Exhibition “The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries”
The exhibition The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries, on view May 9 — December 31, 2023 at the Yeshiva University Museum (YUM) in the Center for Jewish History, tracks Maimonides and his thought through a study of materiality. It focuses on manuscripts and rare printed books, as well as visual depictions in prints and paintings, from collections around the world, exploring specific items within their varied historical, cultural, and Maimonidean contexts. The exhibition is organized by guest curator David Sclar and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue co-published by Liverpool University Press. It explores Maimonides’ authority and impact as well as the Mediterranean and Islamic contexts in which he lived.
Continue reading Exhibition “The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries”Exhibition: The Golden Path. Maimonides across eight Centuries
May 9, 2023 – December 31, 2023, Popper Gallery, Yeshiva University Museum New York
This exhibition, which includes a Mishneh Torah personally signed by Maimonides, features rare pieces on loan from the Bodleian Library in Oxford, the British Library, the Royal Danish Library, the Mantua State Archive of the Italian Ministry of Culture and the National Library of Israel. Also featured are selections from one of the world’s premier private collections, the Hartman Family Collection of Manuscripts and Rare Books. These objects will bring into sharp focus the legacy and profound influence of Maimonides’s writings and thought.
Pop-up-Event: Mapping Memories – Judengasse Extended
13.04.23-30.04.23, Frankfurt / Main (Germany)
Since the late Middle Ages, Frankfurt’s Judengasse was part of the cityscape for more than 300 years. In the 18th century, more than 3,000 people lived in the area that is now located between Konstablerwache and Börneplatz. Today, Frankfurt’s Judengasse has largely disappeared from the cityscape. Only the cellar ruins of five houses in the Judengasse Museum bear witness to its former existence.
The festival “Mapping Memories” focuses on the forcibly displaced traces of the Judengasse from the public space. At its centre are a pop-up exhibition with archaeological finds and an artistic intervention in the present-day shape of the historical site. “Mapping Memories” makes material and immaterial traces of memory visible and tangible on site. The festival includes performances, installations, a digital reconstruction of Judengasse and various explorations of Jewish history on site – with talks, workshops, the development of open educational resources, guided tours and a new play on the outdoor space around Museum Judengasse.
Exhibition: “Les lumières d’Al-Andalus” at the Institut du monde arabe, Paris, 9-30 March 2023
This cycle of meetings, organized by Emmanuelle Tixier du Mesnil andJean-Baptiste Brenet intends to make history and philosophy resonate together in order to disentangle history from myth, and to highlight the powerful contribution of al-Andalus to the universal history of knowledge. Deals with some aspects of Jews at the court of of Abd al-Rahman III and more…
Exhibition: “The Lost Mirror: The image of Jews and Judaism in the Middle Ages,” Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.
10 October 2023 – 1 January 2024.
Virtual tour through the exhibition “In and Out, Between and Beyond: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe” in the museum Old Synagogue Erfurt with Elisheva Baumgarten, Hebrew University Jerusalem
March 29 2023, 6 pm (7pm Israel).
The exhibition was conceived by the research group Beyond the Elite: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, led by Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten. Based on the group‘s research results, seven Israeli artists created contemporary works that address the various aspects regarding the daily life of Jewish communities in medieval Ashkenaz. Curated by Dr. Ido Noy, the exhibition is now on view for the first time outside Jerusalem – at the Old Synagogue Erfurt, where it enters into dialogue with the authentic evidence of medieval Jewish everyday life in the permanent exhibition. Elisheva Baumgarten guides through the virtual exhibition via zoom and explains the artworks as well as the underlying research results.
Please register at welterbe@erfurt.de to participate.
Appealing to the Senses: Finding Artistic Expression through Medieval Jewish Studies
by Avery Gosfield and Neta Bodner
“Ritual Echoes”, filmed from May 9-11 2022 and recently published on YouTube, is the result of the 2022 ShUM (Hebrew acronym for Speyer, Worms, and Mainz in the Rhineland) cities Artistic Residency program. The project features artistic reconstructions of 12th and 13th century piyyutim (Hebrew liturgical poems) as well as songs dedicated to joyous occasions. The idea to perform medieval music and poetry within the mikve (the Jewish ritual bath) and the ruins of the women’s synagogue at Speyer came from conversations in pre-covid Oxford between Avery Gosfield, specialist in medieval and Renaissance music, and Neta Bodner, Lecturer and art historian at the Open University of Israel working on medieval mikvaot. The idea of enlivening the Speyer mikve with a performance of medieval music and poetry came in answer to a call for ‘artists in residence’ in the ShUM cities (which soon thereafter were granted UNESCO World Heritage Status) which, with Neta’s help, Avery applied for and received.
Continue reading Appealing to the Senses: Finding Artistic Expression through Medieval Jewish StudiesExhibition: Coins of the Cairo Geniza
Read about the exhibition “Coins of the Cairo Geniza” via the blog of the Genizah Research Unit.
Virtual Tour through the Exhibition “In and Out, Between and Beyond: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe” in Erfurt online
The exhibition was conceived by the research group Beyond the Elite: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, led by Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten. Based on the group‘s research results, seven Israeli artists created contemporary works that address the various aspects regarding the daily life of Jewish communities in medieval Ashkenaz. Curated by Dr. Ido Noy, the exhibition can be seen for the first time outside Jerusalem – at the Old Synagogue Erfurt, where it enters into dialogue with the authentic evidence of medieval Jewish everyday life in the permanent exhibition.