I am forwarding an invitation to a Zoom lecture that may interest AJL members--for tomorrow
Lisa Silverman Should we preserve, research, and exhibit in our museums only the works of art and visual materials of the "glorious past"? [https://mcusercontent.com/4ea91045c37ecfa2d1fdd5fa6/images/3689f80c-2d24-47bc-9586-8577c6b6f2ab.png] CSP Material Culture Event with Prof. Shalom Sabar, live from Jerusalem Honoring Rochelle Ambersound EPHEMERA The Treasure of Jewish Material Culture Thursday September 24, 2020 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT CSP Partners: Congregation Beth Shalom (Seattle, WA), Congregation B'nai Tzedek (Fountain Valley, CA), Congregation B'nai Israel (Tustin, CA), Temple Bat Yahm (Newport Beach, CA), Temple Beth El of South Orange County (Aliso Viejo, CA), Temple Beth Emet (Anaheim, CA), Temple Beth Ohr (La Mirada, CA), Temple Beth Tikvah (Fullerton, CA), Temple Beth Shalom (Needham, MA), Town & Village Synagogue (NYC, NY) & Valley Beth Shalom (Encino, CA) [https://mcusercontent.com/4ea91045c37ecfa2d1fdd5fa6/images/baab1126-f286-43b5-9858-170529dbe57e.jpg] Registration Link<https://occsp.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ea91045c37ecfa2d1fdd5fa6&id=9cad58d23b&e=6f1225bb5f> Should we preserve, research, and exhibit in our museums only the works of art and visual materials of the "glorious past"? As a scholar of Jewish art and material culture, I was always surprised to see that a simple Hanukkah lamp produced 300-400 years ago is admired by museum visitors and scholars alike while Judaic items of today are often thrown to the garbage after they are used. The museums' curators with whom I discussed this issue dismissed it as something not worth the efforts and money. As a result, some 25 years ago I started to collect and study Jewish ephemera of today. Thus, for example, I asked all my friends and family to save for me Rosh ha-Shanah cards - and soon discovered that the iconography of the cards and the messages on them change on a year by year basis. Shortly thereafter appeared the first essay ever on the history of the Jewish new year cards from their first appearance to today. Many other categories followed - Simchat Torah flags, Tzedakah boxes, kosher wine labels, amulets, wedding invitations (as well as other events in the life cycle), yahrzeit candles, ex libris, dreidels, sukkah decorations, Haggadot, pamphlets, postcards, etc., etc. There are many strategies on how to get the items - including looking through Jerusalem Genizot, items that are thrown away by children of deceased relatives, products in the supermarkets issued for special occasions, etc. Each category presents the richness of the field and how much it can teach us about Jewish society. By now, my students enthusiastically continue to develop this field, and there is hardly any Judaic museum or major Jewish library, whether in Israel or abroad, that doesn't understand the importance of ephemera for the present and the future. Shalom Sabar is Professor of Jewish Art and Folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Sabar is the last Jewish baby born and circumcised in the ages old neo-Aramaic speaking Kurdish-Jewish community of Zakho. He earned his PhD in Art History from UCLA (1987), writing on the illustrated marriage contracts of the Jews in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. His research joins together the disciplines of art history and folklore, highlighting issues pertaining to the folk nature of Jewish art and Jewish material culture, visual materials and objects associated with rituals in the life and year cycles, and the evidence these materials provide about the relationships between the Jewish minorities and the societies that hosted them in Christian Europe and the Islamic East. Among his books are: Ketubbah: Jewish Marriage Contracts of the Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum (1990); Mazal Tov: Illuminated Jewish Marriage Contracts from the Israel Museum Collection (1994); Jerusalem - Stone and Spirit: 3000 Years of History and Art (with Dan Bahat; 1997); The Life Cycle [of the Jews in the Lands of Islam; 2006], and The Sarajevo Haggadah: History and Art (2018). Sabar served as editor of Rimonim (a Hebrew periodical of Jewish art), co-editor of Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore, Pe’amim, and a multi-volume series dedicated to the Jewish communities in the lands of Islam (both published by Ben Zvi institute). He serves as a visiting professor and lectures widely in universities, museums, and public institutions in Israel, Europe and the US. In addition, he guides travelling seminars to Jewish sites in Europe, North Africa, India, and Central Asia. 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