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Roth, Joan

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Abeba @ home, in her “tukel” (mud hut), Walleka, Ethiopia, 1984 Photographyfilm “16” x”20″
A Babushka – grandmother and survivor of WWII – lights SHabbat candles with her granddaughter in Khmelnytski, Ukraine, 2005 Photographyfilm “20” x “24”

Joan Roth was born in 1942 in Detroit, Michigan. Roth has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows in the Ukrainian Institute of America, The Center for Jewish History, the Israel Museum, and the Harriman Institute.

Selected solo exhibitions include

“Project Kesher: Women and Jewish Renaissance in Ukraine”, March 8, 2007, The Ukrainian Institute of America (travel to venues 2013).

“Remembering Old Bukhara” June 2007 – October 2007, The Center for Jewish History.

“Weaving Women’s Words Baltimore Stories” March 28 – July 16, 2004, Jewish Museum of Maryland.

“Weaving Women’s Words Jewish Women of Seattle” March 2003, Museum of History and Industry, Seattle Washington

Selected group exhibitions include

“ A World Apart Next Door Glimpses into the Life of Hasidic Jews” June 19, 2012 – December 1, 2012, Israel Museum.
“Silent Witness: Migration Stories through Synagogues Transformed, Rebuilt or Abandoned” February 15- April 13, 2012, The Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills, Michigan.

“The Seventh Day: Revisiting Shabbat” October 3, 2013 – June 27, 2014, Hebrew Union College Institute of Religion.

“The Sexuality Spectrum” September 6, 2012 – June 28, 2013, Hebrew Union College Institute of Religion.

“Russian and American Jewish Women Photographers in the Diaspora” May 12 – August 15, 2014, The Harriman Institute, Colombia University.

Joan Roth is an independent artist based in NYC.

View this artist’s recent posts here.

joanlroth@aol.com

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