Yeshiva University Museum (NYC)

Collection item of the week:  early 20th century souvenir textile depicting Rachel’s tomb.

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Collection item of the week: Rosh Hashanah greeting card, featuring a textile pattern designed by Lotte Frömel-Fochler for the Wiener Werkstätte, Austria, c. 1910. Greetings in Hebrew and Germ...

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Collection items of the week:  two very different 20th century watercolor depictions of heder.  Samuel Rothbort’s (1882-1971) horrified teacher finds his class drawing portraits of him.  Al...

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Collection items of the week: 19th century wedding dresses from Gallipoli (left), Morocco (center), and New York City (right)

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Collection item of the week: evocation of Jews in Hungary by Orit Hofshi, woodcut on handmade paper, gift of Martin Peretz

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Collection item of the week: Carpet Vendor, painting by Moshe Matus, Israel, n.d., Gift of Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff.  Can you find the man’s  face? Would this be considered non PC today?

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Collection item of the week: Herod’s Temple Mount in Jerusalem. York Model Making and Display Ltd. Created for Benjamin Adelman; Leen Rittmeyer consultant, Gift of Saul Adelman

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Collection item of the week: doll by Ali, Israel ca. 1950, gift of David Michaels

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Collection item of the week: Samson and Delilah, watercolor by Albert Dov Sigal (1912-1970)

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Babushka, gouache by Leon Sherker (1897-1963), New York, 1956

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Collection item of the week: The Battle of Bunker Hill from the series Washington and his Times by Arthur Szyk, Vienna, 1932.

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This was sewn on the striped uniform of Rudolf (Rudi) Jacobson who was interned at Buchenwald from August 1944 to the liberation of the camp on 4/11/1945

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Collection item of the week:  Black Wedding, a painting by Samuel Rothbort (1882-1971) probably based on memories of his early years in Wolkowisk (Belarus).  This illustrates an Eastern Europe...

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Collection item of the week: a charming Victorian printing sample showing a boy and girl playing with a cat and her kittens.  It was produced by the Steam Printing Office of the Hebrew Orphan As...

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This is one of a group of fundraising poster stamps issued by the Council Against Intolerance in 1944. The Council’s goal as set forth in a fundraising letter dated September 1944 was to promot...

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For Shavuot, I am sharing this sculpture from our collection: Homage to the State of Israel by Oliver O’Connor Barrett (1908-1989), New York, 1958, Walnut. You know that Shavuot celebrates the ...

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Collection item of the week:  photograph of Harry Newburg and friends at Coney Island, New York, 1930s.  Imagine what effect social distancing would  have on this image today.

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Tapestry from YU Museum’s collection titled “Golda, mother of Israel.” It was made by fabric artist Ina Golub (1938-2015) in 1979, the year after Meir (1898-1978) died, Golub pays tribute t...

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On National Teacher Appreciation Day, I am sharing two different images of education from our collection.  The photograph shows a teacher in Israel in the 1930s teaching her young students about...

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To find out about this sketch for a sculpture by O'Connor Barret, read our Yom Ha'azmaut blog at https://www.yumuseum.org/education/blogs/a-solitary-yom-haatzmaut

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