Therese Dreyfoos and Samuel Dreyfoos Raphael Strauss (Bavaria, Germany 1830–1901 Cincinnati) Oil on board, ca. 1862 Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of the W. Gunther Plaut Family Therese Pappenheimer (1819–1908) came to the United States a few years after Samuel Dreyfoos (1815–1895) who emigrated in 1839–40 to avoid military service. Both were born in Aldingen, [...]
Hebrew Union College Sisterhood Dorm A. Lincoln Fechheimer (1876-1954) Cincinnati, Ohio, 1921 Watercolor Cincinnati Skirball Museum, 41.424
Newport Bridge Josef Warkany (1903-1992) 1940s Print, 8 x 10" Gift of Steve Warkany, 2016.8 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 [...]
House on Biddle Street Josef Warkany (1903-1992) 1940s Print, 8 x 10" Gift of Steve Warkany, 2016.6 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 [...]
Children's Hospital Josef Warkany (1903-1992) 1940s Print, 8 x 10" Gift of Steve Warkany, 2016.10 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 [...]
Old Incline Josef Warkany (1903-1992) 1940s Print, 8 x 10" Gift of Steve Warkany, 2016.9 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 [...]
Aron HaKodesh (Holy Ark) Hand-carved wood Trzcianka, Poland (former Posen territory), ca. 1779 Scheuer Chapel, Herrman Learning Center Cincinnati Skirball Museum Kirschstein Collection Currently located in the Scheuer Chapel, this Aron HaKodesh, Holy Ark, is originally from the small town of Trzcianka (in German Schönlanke ), outside of Posen in Poland. There, it resided in [...]
Rosh Hashanah Cards Die cut, embossed cardstock USA, c. 1910 Gift of Temple Beth Hillel Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the High Holy Days, as well as the Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashanah, meaning “head of the year,” typically occurs in September or October and its advent on the first day of the [...]
Werner Weinberg Dr. Siegfried Emmering Bergen-Belsen, 1944 Graphite on paper Deaccessioned from Bergen-Belsen Museum, Lohheide, Germany Werner Weinberg (1915-1997), a former faculty member at Cincinnati’s HUC-JIR Campus, was born on May 30, 1915 in Rheda, Germany. He served as a rabbi in Rheda until Kristallnacht, and shortly after escaped to Holland with his wife, [...]
Hands Hannah Lampert Photograph Cincinnati, OH Hannah Lempert, a student at the Mercaz High School in Cincinnati, was the first-place winner in an international photography competition sponsored by Beit Hatfutsot, The Museum of the Jewish People at Tel Aviv University. This inaugural exhibition included photography by teens from North and South America, as well [...]
