‘Psychedelicatessen’ Reimagines Tradition at YIVO
Featuring Jewish puns and Yiddish interpretations of the underground comix movement, Steve Marcus puts a Jewish spin on 1960s counterculture.
Book Review | Testament to an Alchemy of Hope and Despair
Labeling it a glorified scrapbook wouldn’t fit the bill, though its fusion of words and images, its blurring of the self and the collective, brings one to mind.
Visual Moment | A Grogger, a Bong and a Pair of Red Shoes
YIVO’s current exhibitions carry visitors back to a lost world through displays of the art, artifacts and accoutrements that formed the essence of Eastern European Jewish life.
The Seifter Menorah: Fingerprints From a Vanished World
As is often the case with material culture, the Seifter menorah tells a complex story.