Portrait Bust of Isaac Mayer Wise Moses Jacob Ezekiel (Richmond, VA 1844–1917 Rome, Italy) Carrara marble, 1903 Gift of Isaac Mayer Wise heirs 67.123 One of the most prominent Jewish leaders of the nineteenth century, Isaac Mayer Wise was instrumental in establishing the major ideas and institutions of Reform Judaism in America, including the [...]
Therese Bloch Wise Henry Mosler (Germany 1841–1920 New York) Oil on canvas, 1867 Cincinnati Skirball Museum Therese Bloch Wise (1822–1874) was born in Grafenried, Bohemia to Herman and Nannie Rieser Bloch. The Blochs were the only Jewish family in their small village. Therese met her future husband, Isaac Mayer Wise, when he was her [...]
Haym Salomon (1740–1785) Paul Vincze (Hungary 1904-France 1994) USA, 1973 Bronze, h. 1 ¾ x w. 1 ¾ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Jewish-American Hall of Fame Collection, gift of Mel and Esther Wacks, Debra Wacks, and Shari Wacks, 2019.7.9 & 2019.7.10 Born in Lesno, Poland to refugees from Portugal escaping religious persecution, Haym Salomon [...]
Jonas Salk (1914–1995) Hal Reed (Oklahoma 1921-California 2003) USA, 1980 Bronze, h. 1 ¾ x w. 1 ¾ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Jewish-American Hall of Fame Collection, gift of Mel and Esther Wacks, Debra Wacks, and Shari Wacks, 2019.7.23 & 2019.7.24 Virologist Jonas Salk was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish immigrants. After [...]
Levi Strauss (1829–1902) Hal Reed (Oklahoma 1921-California 2003) USA, 1979 Bronze, h. 1 ¾ x w. 1 ¾ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Jewish-American Hall of Fame Collection, gift of Mel and Esther Wacks, Debra Wacks, and Shari Wacks, 2019.7.21 & 2019.7.22 Levi Strauss was born Löb Strauss in Buttenheim, Bavaria, and immigrated to the [...]
Golda Meir (1898–1978) Gerta Ries Wiener (Germany 1907-New York, 2000) USA, 1978 Bronze, h. 1 ¾ x w. 1 ¾ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Jewish-American Hall of Fame Collection, gift of Mel and Esther Wacks, Debra Wacks, and Shari Wacks, 2019.7.19 & 2019.7.20 Born in Kiev, Russia, Golda Mabovitch (later Meir) emigrated with her [...]
Touro Synagogue (1763) Victor Ries (Germany 1907-California, USA 2013) USA, 1977 Bronze, h. 1 ¾ x w. 1 ¾ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Jewish-American Hall of Fame Collection, gift of Mel and Esther Wacks, Debra Wacks, and Shari Wacks, 2019.7.17 & 2019.7.18 The oldest synagogue building still standing in the United States, the Touro [...]
George Gershwin (1898-1937) Robert Russin (New York, NY 1914-Los Angeles, CA 2007) USA, 1972 Bronze, h. 1 ¾ x w. 1 ¾ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Jewish-American Hall of Fame Collection, gift of Mel and Esther Wacks, Debra Wacks, and Shari Wacks, 2019.7.7-8 Growing up on the Lower East Side of New York, young [...]
Sisters Susanna Levine Fisher (b. New York 1948) USA, 1977 Oil on canvas, h. 30 x w. 18 in. unframed Cincinnati Skirball Museum, B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum Collection, 2015.17.131 The daughter of artists Jack Levine and Ruth Gikow, Susanna often modeled for her mother, as well as for the Social Realist painter Raphael [...]
Sabbath Candlesticks Danzig or Lemberg, Poland, ca. 1670-1700 Cast, repousée, engraved parcel-gilt silver, h. 11 11/16 x w. 7 ½ in. Marks: Polish and Austrian. Czihak5; indistinct maker’s mark; r7989 (restamping of Lemberg [Lvov] 1806-7 and 7884 (a Rosenberg mark); restamping 1809-10 Cincinnati Skirball Museum, B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum Collection, gift of Joseph [...]
