The famous Jewish painter Isidor Kaufmann designed the Shabbat Room in 1899 for the first Jewish Museum in Vienna, a room for celebration, among other things, of the Jewish day of rest. The Israeli artist Maya Zack has created a fantastic installation, allowing us to enter this room and even visit the artist in his studio. We will create our own Shabbat Room to see how Isidor Kaufmann might have celebrated Shabbat and consider what there is to do even when you are not allowed to work.More
The Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, established in 1934 by the Soviet government on Russia’s outermost border with China, was an official autonomous entity long before the founding of the State of Israel. Today it is too often dismissed as a “Jewish state without Jews.”More
Only seventeen years old, she gives accounts of the dangerous changes in the camp, which is in the process of disintegration, the contradictory rumors, the years of exhaustion and the constant threat of death until the end of the warMore
Selfies are clearly all the rage. This afternoon we will be on the lookout for suitable subjects for a special selfie. Bring your mobile phones or cameras, and we will photograph the largest, smallest, or most attractive objects. In the Atelier we can then turn the people or things you have photographed into a hand-made portrait.More
