Upper Galilee, Mt. Tabor Josef Warkany (1903-1992) 1970 Etching, 9.75" x 7.75" Gift of Steve Warkany, 2015.37 Josef Warkany is generally remembered for his work in medicine, not his artistic ability. His is called the father of teratology, which is the scientific study of congenital abnormalities and abnormal formations. He is renowned for his work [...]
Otto Szasz Josef Warkany (1903-1992) c. 1940s Etching, 7-7/8" x 10" Gift of Steve Warkany, 2015.36 Josef Warkany is generally remembered for his work in medicine, not his artistic ability. His is called the father of teratology, which is the scientific study of congenital abnormalities and abnormal formations. He is renowned for his work in [...]
Portrait of Nelson Glueck Bernard Safran (New York 1924–1995 New Brunswick, Canada)Oil on board, 1963Cincinnati Skirball Museum Time Magazine CoverDecember 13, 1963Vol. 82 No. 24 Nelson Glueck (1900–1971), president of Hebrew Union College for thirty-four years, was best known for his work in biblical archeology. Many artifacts that were found under his direction [...]
Nelson Glueck Joseph Margulies (Vienna, Austria 1896–1984 New York) Oil on canvas, 1957 Cincinnati Skirball Museum Nelson Glueck (1900–1971) was born to a struggling Lithuanian immigrant Jewish family in Cincinnati. He was ordained a rabbi at Hebrew Union College in 1923. Supported by HUC, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Jena, Germany [...]
David Philipson Jacob H. Perskie (Russia 1865–1941 New Jersey) Oil on canvas, ca. 1938 Cincinnati Skirball Museum The son of German Jewish immigrants, David Philipson (1862–1949), American Reform rabbi, orator, and author, was born in Wabash, Indiana. During his early childhood the family moved to Columbus, Ohio. In March of 1875 Rabbi Isaac M. [...]
Professor Louis Rothenberg (1845–1915) Artist unknown Oil on canvas, ca. 1913 Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Jo Anne Travis Professor Rothenberg was born at Arholzen, Hanover, Germany in 1845 and came to Cincinnati in 1869. Soon after, he was appointed German instructor at the Fifteenth District School. He taught there until 1883, when he [...]
Adolph Oko Sir Jacob Epstein (New York 1880–1959 London) Bronze, 1923 Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of the W. Gunther Plaut Family Adolph S. Oko (1883–1944), librarian, scholar, and philanthropist, was born near Kharkov, Russia. Educated in Germany, Oko came to the United States in 1902. After working in the Astor Library in New York [...]
Adolph S. Oko Eric Goldberg (Germany 1890–1969 Montreal) Oil on canvas, undated Cincinnati Skirball Museum This canvas usually hangs proudly on the first floor of the Klau Library, where Adolph Oko served as librarian from 1906 until 1933. During his tenure, Oko significantly expanded the Klau’s collections and began assembling a collection of art [...]
Isaac Mayer Wise Artist unknown Oil on canvas, after 1879 Cincinnati Skirball Museum At his death in 1900, Isaac Mayer Wise was described as “the foremost rabbi in America.” His major achievements were the establishment of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (today’s Union for Reform Judaism) in 1873, the Hebrew Union College in [...]
Jeptha Moses Jacob Ezekiel (Richmond, VA 1844–1917 Rome, Italy) Bronze relief, 1898 Inscribed: J E P T H A; He loved his neighbor as himself; ME Rome 1898 Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Cecil L. Striker In his memoirs, renowned Jewish sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel describes at some length the summer of 1896, when [...]
