Category Billha Zussman

Billha Zussman in Modern Judaica: Today’s Makers, Today’s Sacred Objects
Artist Billha Zussman is featured with four highly original artworks in Modern Judaica: Today’s Makers, Today’s Sacred Objects . This book by Jim Cohen presents some of the most outstanding examples of contemporary Judaica—sacred Jewish objects—that have been created over the last 30+ years. Fifty-three makers have told their stories in their own words, giving incredible […]

Jewish Art Salon Open Studios: The Feminist Voice in Jewish Art
Sunday, February 27, 12 PM ET, 11 AM CT, 9 AM PT, 7 PM Israel JEWISH ART SALON is excited to invite you to The Feminist Voice in Jewish Art, the next live session of our successful online series, OPEN STUDIOS, curated by Dorit Jordan Dotan and Judith Joseph, on February 27, 2022, at 12 […]

Call for Art: Spinoza, Marrano of Reason
During the month of March 2019 the Jewish Art Salon will exhibit artworks by its members at two venues in the center of Amsterdam, The Netherlands: the Amstelkerk and Plein van Siena. The Amstelkerk’s exquisite gallery and community center is a well-known and much visited site. The Plein van Siena is a venue centered around […]

Between Heaven and Earth
By Ben Schachter The Jerusalem Biennial began in 2013. Organized by Ram Ozeri, the Biennial has steadily grown in size and invites artists and artists groups from all over the world to exhibit their work in Jerusalem. This year the organizers considered proposals centered on the theme “Watershed.” This post is the first in a […]

Golem in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Jewish Art Gallery will be celebrating all things GOLEM. Art Opening Reception, and klezmer rock band GOLEM, live in concert. Doors open October 21 @ 7:30pm. Concert 9:30 pm. 603 St Johns Place, Brooklyn, NY Tickets online: http://m.bpt.me/event/3066617 Shoshanna Brombacher, artist, writer, curator, and Jewish Art Salon member, has assembled over forty original works […]

Sjnoder, the Anatomy of Tzedakah by Billha Zussman
Zussman’s short animation film “Sjnoder, the Anatomy of Tzedakah” is inspired by the Sjnoderbooks collection of the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. In The Netherlands donations that were pledged on Shabbat were recorded by threading a piece of string through a ledger with holes. The word Sjnoder is derived from the Hebrew “mi shenadar” (he […]

Freedom Imagined; Freedom Lived Exhibition
Miriam Stern and Billha Zussman have several art works in this show curated by Naomi Fishman. J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts, Lindenwold University, 2300 West Clay St., Saint Charles, MO. May 22 – June 17, 2016, Sunday to Wednesday by appointment, Thursday and Friday from 12 to 7 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to […]