Jood Badge Cloth Bergen Belsen, 1944 Gift of Werner Weinberg Estate Werner Weinberg (1915-1997), a former faculty member at Cincinnati’s HUC-JIR Campus, was born on May 30, 1915 in Rheda, Germany. Werner graduated from the Jewish Teachers Seminary in Wurzburg in 1936 and accepted a position in Hanover at a Jewish elementary school and [...]
Le Mere et l’Enfant (Mother and Child) Reuven Rubin (1893-1974) Lithograph Israel, 1960 Gift of Harry F. Hemmerich to the B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum Romanian-born Rubin Zelicovici had a dream when he first set foot in Ottoman Palestine in 1912. His dream was to be an artist in Israel, to create an [...]
Menorah Samuel Bak (b. 1933) Serigraph United States, ca. 1997 Gift of Mike and Toby Chernin B’nai B’rith Klutznick Collection of the Skirball Museum Samuel Bak survived the destruction of the Vilna ghetto and immigrated with his mother to Jerusalem in 1948, where he studied at the Bezalel School of Art and Design. After [...]
Gentleman from Cracow Raphael Soyer (1899-1987) Lithograph, 1970 Cincinnati Skirball Museum; gift of Herbert and Nancy Bernhard A prolific painter who is often described as an American scene painter and Social Realist, Raphael Soyer was also a reluctant Jewish artist. Raphael and his twin brother Moses were born in Borisoglebsk, South Russia, and emigrated [...]
Pesach Chaim Gross (1904-1991) United States Lithograph, 1968 Passover, or Pesach, is a seven-day festival that marks the beginning of spring and recalls the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt. The Passover seder, meaning order, retells the story of the exodus from Egypt and rich symbolism appears throughout. The Passover seder is modeled after the ancient Greek symposia, [...]
Hanukkiah Irivah Brass New York, 1920 Museum Purchase This hanukkiah (a candelabra used to celebrate the holiday of Hanukkah), was produced by an organization called Irivah, a division of the Women's Division of the Jewish Education Committee, founded in 1926 in New York City. Irivah provided scholarships for thousands of Jewish children unable to [...]
Candlesticks Ludwig Wolpert Silver USA, 1965 77.131 a/b German-born Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert immigrated to Palestine in 1933, where he taught metalworking at the Bezalel School for Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem. In 1956, he immigrated to New York to establish the Tobe Pascher Workshop for Jewish ceremonial objects at the Jewish Museum. He is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
