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Leora Fridman discusses curating a new exhibition confronting issues of tradition, gender, and Zionism in the Jewish-American community.

Leora Fridman discusses curating a new exhibition confronting issues of tradition, gender, and Zionism in the Jewish-American community.

WHO CARES ABOUT JEWISH ART, and where does it belong? The category has long faced a problem wherein work is either too Jewish—too niche, too religious, too rootless-cosmopolitan—or too secular, too queer, too political (often code for too anti-Zionist). Jewish spaces censor their own; non-Jewish spaces are afraid to engage. For artists, there’s often a question of what language one has to speak to obtain funding: a question of whether one can show up as their whole self. In her 2019 essay ...

(New York Jewish Week) - In a rickety warehouse in Long Island City, reached only by a footbridge that crosses underneath the Long Island Expressway,

After a foundation funding the Central Yiddish Cultural Organization since 1956 halted its donations, the institution was in peril - until a couple of good Samaritans stepped in

“Little Yiddish organizations have come and gone by the hundreds, if not more,”Hy Wolfe said. “The only ones that still exist today are the ones where they have stubborn old Jews like me."

A new generation is helping to rescue the CYCO Yiddish Book Center.