Shabbat Service and Cultural Program
Our Shabbat service.
Cultural program:
Highlights from the Derfner Judaica Museum Collection
Susan Chevlowe will guide us through an exploration of highlights from the Derfner Judaica Museum + Art Collection with a focus on the ongoing exhibition Tradition and Remembrance: Treasures of the Derfner Judaica Museum. The exhibition explores the intersections of Jewish history and memory. It tells the stories of art and objects used in traditional Jewish practice in light of the role memory plays in shaping both individual and communal identities. The exhibition begins with secular and ritual objects from the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts founded in Jerusalem in 1906 and continues with objects used in observance of holidays and life cycle events to the present day, including a kippah designed by American minimalist and conceptual artist Sol LeWitt. Among other featured objects are a parcel-gilt filigree case for an Esther Scroll read during Purim from Ionnina, Greece, a hand-drawn marriage contract from Hamadan, Persia, European objects in silver dating from the mid-18th century and examples of late 19th–early 20th century Jewish American folk art.
Susan Chevlowe, Ph.D. is Chief Curator and Museum Director of Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale, in the Bronx, where she has organized many solo shows as well as group exhibitions. She is a former adjunct assistant professor in the Program in Jewish Art and Visual Culture at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she also served as co-chair of the Visual Arts Committee of the Arts Advisory Board. Prior to coming to the Derfner, Dr. Chevlowe was an associate curator at the Jewish Museum where she organized many exhibitions and edited or co-edited their accompanying catalogues. Her work has also appeared at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Dr. Chevlowe received her Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, CUNY. She lectures and writes about Jewish art and visual culture.
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