#Jewish Art

[adiradirim]

Sephardi & Romaniote Jewish Women's Clothing in the Byzantine and Ottoman Periods, illustrated by Nikos Stavroulakis

#jumblr #jewish #jewish art #jewish women #jewish history #sephardim #romaniotes #art #these are from all over. byzantium/constantinople/istanbul and smyrna/izmir and rhodes and adrianople/edirne and thessaloniki etc #shoutout to a fellow edirne girlie in the top right. #my posts

[jareckiworld]

Pedro Friedeberg — Kant's Kindergarten (acrylic and ink on board, 1973)

#Pedro Friedeberg #mexican art #jewish art #arte mexicano #Immanuel Kant

[lt-cmdr-titties]

i do truly think a lot of the hatred felt towards the final frontier is rooted in people not knowing shatner is jewish. it's not a christian story about star trek characters finding jesus. it's a jewish story about star trek characters meeting gd gdself and still not being satisfied, still asking questions, still challenging, and then coming to a conclusion that actually it doesn't matter one way or the other if there definitively is or isn't a gd, bc their community and their relationships with each other are way more important than that

#star trek tos #james t kirk #spock cha'sarek #leonard bones mccoy #star trek the final frontier #jewish kirk #jewish spock #jewish star trek #jewish art #jumblr #star trek meta

[sheydgarden]

בצלם אלהים / b'tzelem elohim / made in the divine image, 8x10 linocut print, 2023

#jewish art #jumblr #trans art #jewish artists #linocut #printmaking #artists on tumblr

[hindahoney]

A very brief introduction to the world's oldest hatred: antisemitism.

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#jumblr #judaism #jewish #frumblr #antisemitism #jewish history #jewish art #jewblr #jew tag

[thosefaroffconstellations]

Figured I should start posting my art here 🫶🏼

#jewish art #jew stuff #jumblr #jewish artist #judaism #jewish #frumblr #king david #first post

[macbethz]

Thinking a lot recently about what how a minor war god from the Canaanite pantheon evolved into the one God of all creation.

There is a common misinterpretation of Judaism from Christians and ex-Christians, influenced by their cultural reading of the Old Testament, where our perception of God is seen as uniquely violent when compared to the New Testament merciful one. This interpretation lacks an acknowledgement of historical context, something Judaism encourages investigation into: the roots of the Torah lie in the laws of a persecuted people, written while we were in exile, from the mythology of a god of war.

Chose to depict the proto-Semetic war god as humanoid since the Canaanite religion didn't have the same aniconist tradition as judaism today. there are actually a few depictions in art believed to be early forms of the Hebrew God or the gods that would eventually merge into his mythology (Ba'al and El)

now available as a print!

EDIT: really hate that i have to say this on an unrelated piece about judaism but this is directly counter to the ideals of zionists and if you are using this comic while justifying Israel's colonial rule you have misunderstood my work. "You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt" (Exodus 22:20, 23:19). free palestine

#goyim are encouraged to share and enjoy if you like btw my work is for everyone #very weird personal little comic. but it came to me and i had to make it #judaism #jumblr #jewish art #judaica #canaanite mythology #warlock wartalks #my art #comic #my comics

[nesyanast]

Scene from the most famous Yiddish play The Dybbuk by the Vilner Trupe. 1910s.

#jumblr #jewish #jews #nesyapost #jewish history #jewish culture #yiddish #Poland #Eastern Europe #jewish art #Jewish theater #Jewish actors #the dybbuk #1910s #yiddish folklore #Jewish folklore #ashkenazim #ashkenazi #photography #vintage photography

[honeysuckle-venom]

The Shofar Breaks Your Heart

by Dane Kuttler

When you give a girl a shofar –  no, not a proper instrument of G-d, but a rough-cut horn with no real mouthpiece her aunt brings back from a trip to Jerusalem, don’t make it easy.

Put it up on the shelf in the living room where its curled promise of a shout will tempt her until she can reach it on tiptoe.

Tell her no one has ever found its voice, that she will only make it grunt, bray and sputter like the animal it came from.

Then give her a few years.

Give her an empty garage and a neighborhood Jewish enough to understand what it’s hearing so she can practice until tiny tekiot burst forth from the scrap of ram.

She will be the only one who can ever shape its sounds, can bend the call to tekiah, round off nine drops of t’ruah wailing, fling the anguished cry of a sh’varim from its mouth.

Let her brag about this.  Remember that children are not humble creatures, that the simple act of being heard is their great triumph.  Let her be heard.

Bring her to Hebrew school. Teach her the story of the rabbi who told his students that he would put the words of Torah on their hearts; that the words would only find their way in when the students’ hearts broke. Let her sit with that tale for as long as it takes for her own heart to shatter, for torah and poetry and forgiveness  find their way inside,

play her Leonard Cohen. Let him croon about the cracks in everything, that’s how the light gets in, let her begin searching for light, ask her where she thinks the cracks come from, give her Auschwitz, give her Torquemada, give her pogrom and quota and blacklist, the ashes of all her burnt bridges, give her avinu malkenu, ashamnu, ashamnu, ashamnu, 

watch her break  her heart with her fist.

Give her the shofar.   Let the horn steal her breath, let her begin to understand that she’s not holding a dead piece of animal, but a living prayer.

Teach her: after every blast you can hear the echo of the still small voice.

If you listen for it, you can hear the calls for the wild cries they are; salute them with a straight back when they yank you from your amidah; and should you hear a shofar blower struggle and gasp and strain for each call, imagine yourself a trapped animal, desperate to be heard.

When it’s over, Close your eyes.

Be. Broken. Here.  Before G-d and your people. Be. Cracked.

feel the light and the words come in.

#they read this at shul tonight and it was so powerful and i thought i'd share it #jumblr #judaism #poem #poetry #shofar #rosh hashanah #high holidays #elul #jewish art #dane kuttler #yom kippur

[420paki]

In honor of Tu BiShvat (the Jewish New Year of Trees), have some of my favorite Jewish art depicting trees.

#tu bishvat #Jew stuff #Jewish holidays #trees #tree of life #Jewish art #Judaism

[jareckiworld]

Pedro Friedeberg — Trantamorphic Decapitations (ink and acrylic on wood panel, 1978)

#Pedro Friedeberg #mexican art #jewish art #arte mexicano

[hiddurmitzvah]

This is a jewish tombstone

from a small hungarian village, Tuzsér. It is standing in the middle of litter, as the place of the jewish cemetery is nowadays used as a garbage dump.

When I found this place, I knew I should include it in the zine that we created on the Art of Abandoned Jewish Cemeteries of Hungary, since we wanted to raise attention to the sad state of jewish cemeteries of the country. As it is visible by the blessing hands symbol, this tombstone belongs to a kohanite person, who is a descendant just like all other kohanites, of the high priests of the Temple.

What we can read at the tombstone is just a short line, which says Here lies the elderly Yehuda, son of Cvi Ha-kohen, died in 1906.

This is how it ended up eventually in the Art of Abandoned Jewish Cemeteries zine, the symbol was reproduced with lino cut and the surrounding text explains the symbols and share a bit about the history of the community of Tuzsér:

If you wanna support our project to preserve the memory of the former jewish communities of the hungarian countryside along with the cemeteries themselves, you can order from the zine here:

#story #cemeteries #jewish #jumblr #history #garbage #hungarian #hungary #judaism #symbol #symbols #linocut #linoprint #zine #fanzine #etsy #order #jewish art #tombstone

[sheydgarden]

a really fun recent commission: this custom bookplate for the curator of Judaica at the Museum of the Bible! it's based on a variety of texts that describe (at least some) sheydim as observantly Jewish - especially the Talmudic stories of Yosef Sheyda, a demonic scholar or possibly even a rabbi himself. the quote in the window is from Psalm 24, "the earth is the Lord's, and everything in it" which is often written above an owner's name in Jewish books, but provides double meaning here for the fact that sheydim too are divinely created. Jesse shares my love for sheydim as transgressive, marginalized figures who are nevertheless deeply Jewish, so this was an ideal collaboration & a delight to make!

also done entirely in Procreate, inked with True Grit Texture Supply's "Rusty Nib" engraver brushes - totally in love with this new process & the relative ease of accomplishing this type/level of hatching vs. traditional media (giving me added respect for the 17th century printmakers I've been studying). i will always love working traditionally but adding more digital techniques to my repertoire has been super useful.

#jewish art #jumblr #illustration #bookplate #commissions #ex libris #sheydim #digital art #jewish artists

[hindahoney]

Jewish prayer book from Kaifeng, China, written with Chinese and Hebrew characters

#jumblr #judaism #jewish #frumblr #jewish history #jewish art #jewblr #judaica #jewish diaspora #keifeng jews

[thosefaroffconstellations]

פורים שמח!!

#jumblr #jew stuff #frumblr #jewish art #jewish artist #purim #judaism #jewish

[bigfootboyband]

As Halloween approaches, I’ve been seeing many very talented makeup artists recreate the face of the bride in Tim Burton’s “The Corpse Bride.” I thought this would be a good oppertunity to make some art and remind one and all that the “The Corpe Bride” (known in some tellings as “The Finger” or “The Demon in the Tree”) is a beloved Jewish folktale. Folklorist Howard Schwartz traces the orgins of “The Finger” to 16th century Levant. Aftrer hundreds of years of retelling, the story, like all folktales, has undergone many iterations and also became highly informed by the violence of life in the Pale of Settlement (specifically towards women and young brides).

If you'd like to support me, you can do so here <3

#digital art #art #original art #jewish #jewish art #jewish culture #jewish tradition #jewish things #jewish folklore #jewish folktales #jewish folktale #jewish history #jumblr #folkart #folk art #jewish folk art #jewish folkart #halloween #the corpse bride #der finger #the finger #the demon in the tree #tim burton #tim burton corpse bride #corpse bride #jewish artist