“Art”

This essay about Yiddish-speaking artist Nathan Altman, written in French by Dr. Pascale Samuel, is from the catalogue accompanying the exhibition “The Dybbuk: Phantom of a Lost World,” on view at Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme [Museum of the Art and History of Judaism] (mahJ) in Paris through January 26, 2025. 

Dec 05, 2024

Oct 01, 2024

What Andreas Mühe's Mischpoche beckons is a Yiddish kvetsh—someone to squeeze the term, pinch and press it, articulate where the stress should fall.

May 28, 2024

Weaver interviewed Julie Weitz about her ongoing Doikayt project: A series of ritualistic, improvisational performances at Jewish sites across Eastern Europe.

Apr 05, 2024

Even with a copiously documented figure like Chagall, mysteries can remain. What happened to the mural he was supposed to make for Brandeis University?

Mar 28, 2024

An interview with Canadian producer, curator, and writer, Evelyn Tauben, about her founding of FENTSTER, a window gallery in Toronto that explores the Jewish experience through dozens of artists' eyes

Apr 03, 2023

An artist and researcher shares her favorite illustrations depicting *Shabes* in Yiddish texts.

Mar 21, 2023

This spring, Debora Vogel’s poetry bloomed riotously across the faces of three buildings in Berlin. Passages from the collection Day Figures (Tog-Figurn, 1930) appeared in Vogel’s Yiddish and in translations into German, Arabic, and English, the letters of those four alphabets painted alongside hobo hieroglyphs, squatter runes, and paleotype. This series of calligraphic murals is the work of Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson (b. 1984). 

Oct 26, 2021

Margaret Frothingham and Paula Cohen discuss fire trucks, folktales, and other considerations in Cohen's illustrations for this new treasury of Yiddish children's stories.

Apr 21, 2021

A selection of short texts shedding light on the biography of artist Chaim Soutine, translated and with an introductory essay by Ofer Dynes.

Apr 27, 2020

Ekaterina Kuznetsova interviews artists Arndt Beck and Ella Ponizovsky-Bergelson about their recent exhibition of Yiddish-related works in Berlin, “Di farbloyte feder | Berliner zeydes."

Dec 12, 2019

Mishory examines the collaborative work of art historian Rachel Wischnitzer (1885-1989), and Jewish-German designer and typographer Franzisca Baruch (1901-1989), demonstrating that Baruch’s revival of medieval Hebrew letterforms in her work on Rimon/Milgroym and her use of fragmentation as a strategy for visual, textual, and cultural revival was in conversation with Wischnitzer’s scholarship. 

Dec 10, 2019

Artist and In geveb supporter Samantha Wood incorporated In geveb pencils into a work of art now on display as part of an art show at The Art Garden in Shelburne Falls, Mass.

Dec 02, 2019

Recollections of a visit to a wooden synagogue in Mogilev by the great modernist artist El Lissitzky. 

Jul 01, 2019

Milgroym founder Rachel Wischnitzer's portrait of painter Max Liebermann (1847–1935) on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. 

Jul 01, 2019

David Shneer interviews Rob Adler Peckerar and Alexx Shilling about their project to bring embodied artistic interpretation to bear on a linguistic archive. 

May 20, 2019

Lipsker reviews Yevgeniy Fiks's exhibition Himl un Erd, a project that boldly probes the connections between Russian-Jewish history and the Soviet space-exploration projects. 

Dec 14, 2018

Dec 10, 2018

Yevgeniy Fiks and Larissa Babji invited artists to engage with Kalman Zingman’s 1918 Yiddish-language utopian novella In der tsukunft-shtot edenia (In Edenia, a City of the Future), published in Kharkiv, Ukraine. They displayed the results in an exhibition at Yermilov Center in Kharkiv, Ukraine in June 2017. Here they discuss the novel, the process that led to the exhibition, and the political and social realities that their project sought to address.

Nov 01, 2018

Oct 29, 2018

A comparison of the Yiddish journal Milgroym and its Hebrew counterpart Rimon, both published in Berlin in the mid-1920s. 

Jun 06, 2018

Milgroym editor Rachel Wischnitzer's essay on illustrated Hebrew manuscripts

Jun 06, 2018

Henryk Berlewi's 1922 essay on Jewish art in Russia, published in Milgroym.

Feb 05, 2018