Hanukkah Lamp Ludwig Wolpert (1900-1981) Brass Jerusalem, ca. 1950 Signed in Hebrew “Wolpert Jerusalem” and in English “Israel” Cincinnati Skirball Museum, B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum Collection, gift of Abram Kanof This Hanukkah lamp was made by German-born Ludwig Wolpert (1900-1981) who studied sculpture and metalwork in Frankfurt before immigrating to Mandate Palestine in [...]
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 [...]
Hanukkiyah (Hanukkah Menorah) David Palombo (Turkey 1920-1966 Jerusalem) Israel, ca. 1963 Rock and iron Cincinnati Skirball Museum, x.2021.1 Hanukkah, a joyous winter holiday, commemorates the military victory in 165 BCE of a small number of Jews, led by Judah Maccabee, over the ruling Syrian-Greek government. The Jews had been commanded to worship only Greek idols under penalty [...]
Judah Magnes (1877–1948) Victor Ries (Germany 1907-2013 California) USA, 1969 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, 2019.7.1 Born in San Francisco, Magnes grew up in Oakland and was the first native Californian [...]
Jacob’s Ladder Shalom Moskovitz (Safed 1887–1980 Safed) Safed, Israel, ca. 1965 Color lithograph, h. 18 3/8 x w. 26 7/16 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.14 The artist who became known as Shalom of Safed began to paint relatively late, at the age of fifty-five. By [...]
Monts du Negev (Negev Mountains) Marcel Janco (Romania 1895–1984, Ein Hod, Israel) Israel, ca. 1960 Screen print, h. 26 ½ x w. 19 5/8 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museun, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.10 Born to a wealthy family in Bucharest, Romania, Janco relocated to Zurich in his twenties and [...]
Toys Yosl Bergner (Warsaw, Poland 1920-2017 Tel Aviv-Yafo) Tel Aviv, 1973 Lithograph, h. 26 ½ x w. 19 5/8 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.9 Bergner was born in Warsaw, Poland, reached Australia by the age of 17, and emigrated to Israel in 1951, settling first [...]
The Tea Drinkers Yosl Bergner (Warsaw, Poland 1920–2017 Tel Aviv-Yafo) Tel Aviv, 1966 Hand colored lithograph, h. 13 ¾ x w. 19 9/16 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.8 Bergner was born in Warsaw, Poland, reached Australia by the age of 17, and emigrated to Israel [...]
Trees Anna Ticho (Czechia 1894–1980 Jerusalem) Jerusalem, ca. 1968 Lithograph, h. 27 1/6 x w. 21 9/16 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.15 Ticho came to Jerusalem from Vienna when she was sixteen. She spent two years in Damascus during World War I while her husband [...]
Mountain B Menashe Kadishman (Tel Aviv 1932–2015 Ramat Gan) Tel Aviv, 1974 Screenprint, h. 33 x w. 27 in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Nancy M. Berman and Alan J. Bloch, 2018.11 Born in Tel Aviv, Kadishman studied with Israeli sculptors Moshe Sternschuss and Rudi Lehmann in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem respectively in the [...]
