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Berl Katznelson did much to foster the awareness of “Yizkor” and its literature in the twenty years after Tel Hai, through an explicit reference to the chain of Jewish martyrology and heroism and a…
When we consider the quotidian life of our society, it is impossible to ignore the phenomenon of “avoidance”; namely, it seems that the public at large is unwilling to think too much about the…
Remembrance was commissioned by Congregation Agudas Achim in Bexley, Ohio. The nine-foot-tall bronze sculpture depicts smoke rising from a crematorium, intertwined with the arm of a survivor…
Best known for his New York City street photography, Speier was always on the lookout for unexpected and often humorous juxtapositions of incongruous elements to photograph. In this scene, visitors to…
Tumarkin’s Holocaust and Revival Monument is a large, inverted pyramid balanced on its point, originally made of corten (or, weathered) steel and glass. (Its glass panels were removed a few years…
Glid’s memorial for the Jews of Salonika, Greece who were murdered in the Holocaust is modeled on Menorah in Flames, his 1990 monument for the murdered Jews of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Both depict a tree…
Memory: The Homosexual Memorial Imagination was the winner of a contest held in 1998 by Beth Simchat Torah, a pioneering LGBT synagogue located in New York City, to choose an artwork memorializing the…
Whiteread’s memorial for Austrian Jewish victims of the Holocaust is located in Vienna in a square known as the Judenplatz. Sometimes called the Nameless Library, the steel and concrete structure has…
The heart is prized as the human body’s noblest and most important organ, for it is the first to feel the pain which any other part of the body…
There will be a concert of an excellent music ensemble at the Aynalı Gazino next to Taksim Garden in Beyoğlu, from the first day of the holy Ramadan Feast and every Friday, Saturday…