בצלם אלהים / b'tzelem elohim / made in the divine image, 8x10 linocut print, 2023
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Peter (A Young English Girl) | 1924
This portrait by lesbian painter Romaine Brooks depicts gender non-conforming lesbian artist Gluck, who refused gendered titles and was known within their inner circles as the chosen names Peter or Hig.
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Beno Rothenberg, A couple of dogs with their owners, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1949.
source: אוסף מיתר, האוסף הלאומי לתצלומים על שם משפחת פריצקר, הספרייה הלאומית Meitar Collection, The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, The National Library of Israel.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ETHAN FREEMAN!
AND SHABBAT SHALOM, EVERYONE!
(Art by @or-what-you-will)
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Sukkot by Alona Frankel
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The Path We Share — Jonah, Abraham, Isaac, and The Goat
Shanah tovah everyone! (Yes I realize Rosh Hashanah is over, but it's still the high holidays ok!)
This is an illustration I made for our high holiday liturgy books this year. If you're curious, I put the artist's statement I wrote for the book under the cut:
This illustration represents aspects of three different stories we revisit on the high holidays—that of Abraham and Isaac, Jonah and the giant fish, and the scapegoat sent into the wilderness, carrying away the sins of the community. Abraham falls back as Isaac walks up the mountain, following the goat, and Jonah follows a similar path, by sea.
Each of them, whether by land or by sea, up the mountain, to the wilderness, or to Ninevah, whether knowing of their fates or not—walk the same path we do as we head into the high holidays. Along the path set to them by G-d. Did Isaac know what would happen as he walked up the mountain? Did the goat led out to the wilderness know what it represented? Would they have chosen to follow that path had they known? Would they have been given a choice?
Each year, we revisit these stories, and each year, we walk the same path together, into an unseen future—knowing we are not alone in the journey.
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I'm tired of my posts on antisemitism being the only posts on my page that get reblogged. I get why, but it is still tiring.
I wish people were as proud to reblog jewish art, music, poetry, ect. as they are to reblog against antisemites.
We don't just want to play defense, guys. Offense is also important.
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someone save me from myself. have some holiday leosagi this is the most ur gonna get relating to Christmas bc I am in fact Jewish. leosagi has stolen me. and i have put to much effert in. also donni and blythe cameo~
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Miriam Cahn (Swiss, b. 1949)
Kuessenmuesen, 2018
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a really fun recent commission: this custom bookplate for the curator of Judaica at the Museum of the Bible! it's based on a variety of texts that describe (at least some) sheydim as observantly Jewish - especially the Talmudic stories of Yosef Sheyda, a demonic scholar or possibly even a rabbi himself. the quote in the window is from Psalm 24, "the earth is the Lord's, and everything in it" which is often written above an owner's name in Jewish books, but provides double meaning here for the fact that sheydim too are divinely created. Jesse shares my love for sheydim as transgressive, marginalized figures who are nevertheless deeply Jewish, so this was an ideal collaboration & a delight to make!
also done entirely in Procreate, inked with True Grit Texture Supply's "Rusty Nib" engraver brushes - totally in love with this new process & the relative ease of accomplishing this type/level of hatching vs. traditional media (giving me added respect for the 17th century printmakers I've been studying). i will always love working traditionally but adding more digital techniques to my repertoire has been super useful.
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Medallion (1937) by Gluck
This portrait depicting gender non-conforming lesbian artist Gluck (right) alongside lover Nesta Obermer (left) was inspired by a night out when the pair attended a production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The artist referred to this piece as the “YouWe” picture.
“They sat together in the third row and felt the intensity of the music fused them both into one person and matched their love.”
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George Michael photographed by Herb Ritts for Interview magazine’s October 1988 issue.
In 2008, Michael revealed to the Los Angeles Times that his maternal grandmother was Jewish, but she married a non-Jewish man and raised her children with no knowledge of their heritage due to her fear during World War II.
Photographer Herb Ritts was also of Jewish descent.
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חנוך ברצ'ינסקי, שבת, שמן על בד, 1923, המשכן לאמנות, עין חרוד.
Henoch (Henryk) Barczyński, Shabbat, Oil on Canvas, 1923, Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod.
Henoch Barczyński (b. 1896) was a jewish polish artist. He was killed by the nazis in 1941.
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Ethan Hands
Phantom Hands with Ethan Freeman (and Anne Gorner)
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