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Esther Adler Oral History (interview Code: 19348)
Zusammenfassung: Audiovisual testimony of a Holocaust survivor. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences
Best Friends
Elli Cohen and Gina Wolf met on their first day of Jewish day school in Breslau, Germany. The year is 1930, and the two girls, despite still being young, can feel the changing attitudes toward Jews as the Nazis come to power. Elli is intrigued by Gina the second she meets her. The two girls form a close friendship and cement the momentous occasion with a handshake. They are very different. Elli dreams of becoming a teacher in Eretz Yisrael. Gina can't imagine ever leaving her family. Then, their worst nightmare becomes reality. As Elli escapes capture by traveling to the Middle East, Gina is forced into hiding with a kindly Christian family. As the war rages on and the horrors of the Holocaust come to pass, each girl wonders what happened to the other. They face challenges in their own lives, but they never forget the friend they left behind. In this poignant historical novel, based on her own life experiences, Esther Adler tells a story of courage, friendship, and the strength of two extraordinary young women. Her work honors her friend Regina and the millions of innocents who became victims of the Nazi regime.
Poems of Sorrow, Solace, and Spirituality
Beloved Jewish educator Esther Adler, brings a poet's eye to nearly a century of Jewish life, spanning her youth in Nazi Germany, her young adulthood in British Mandate Palestine, and her many decades in the United States. With a clear and unfailing voice, she commits herself to bear witness both to the destruction of European Jewry and to its rebirth in the 21st century. Her poems are a call to conscience, a call to inner peace, and a call to joy. Through the lens of Jewish learning, she invites readers to share in the sources that inspire her resilience. Reviews: "In Esther Adler's vivid poems, memories of loss, exile, and dislocation are transformed into injunctions to remember and transc...
American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe
The Museum of Modern Art is known for its prescient focus on the avant-garde art of Europe, but in the first half of the twentieth century it was also acquiring work by Stuart Davis, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Alfred Stieglitz, and other, less well-known American artists whose work sometimes fits awkwardly under the avant garde umbrella. American Modern presents a fresh look at MoMA’s holdings of American art from that period. The still lifes, portraits, and urban, rural, and industrial landscapes vary in style, approach, and medium: melancholy images by Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth bump against the eccentric landscapes of Charles Burchfield and the Jazz Age sculpture of Elie Nadelman. Yet a distinct sensibility emerges, revealing a side of the Museum that may surprise a good part of its audience and throwing light on the cultural preoccupations of the rapidly changing American society of the day.
Breaking the Chains to Freedom
What would you do if the people you counted on the most turned out to be the very ones you needed protection from? Esther recounts her journey of surviving the abuse of her mentally ill father, her relationship with her handicapped mother, her struggle living under a dogmatic, religious Jewish family, married off as a young girl to an abusive man, the dissolution of her marriage, disease, loss and finally her rise from the ashes as she learns to find the power within. Esther shares how she learned to turn all her struggles into blessings and upon shifting her mind, so did her life. This book is a guide to help you through any trauma you are going through or have been through. It is designed to help you understand why you feel the way you do and how to move forward. You will be inspired as you read Esther's dramatic shift and how she eloquently shares how you can do that too.
Romare Bearden: Patchwork Quilt
How Bearden's landmark quilt exemplifies his complex art and rich legacy Romare Bearden's (1911-88) Patchwork Quilt (1970) is a monumental collage that proves the artist's mastery of his signature medium. Acquired by the Museum of Modern Art the year it was made, the work has become a landmark in Bearden's career. But his path to creating it, to embracing collage, and to making work that addresses the specifics of Black life in America in ways that are both specific and broadly accessible, was a long one. Bearden's early career is characterized by broad experimentation with materials and visual styles, as well as major life events that led away from a visual arts practice. In this latest volume of the MoMA One on One series, curator Esther Adler explores Bearden's search for his artistic voice, illustrated by the breadth of different works in the museum's collection. A close reading of Patchwork Quilt, its sources and materiality, further emphasize the artist's unwavering commitment to both his art and community, a combination that has led to his centrality in mid-20th century art.
New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching
A cornucopia of etchings by artists from Mona Hatoum to Wangechi Mutu--from the studio of the great American master printer Over the course of four decades, master printer and publisher Jacob Samuel (born 1951) collaborated with some of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries--including painters, sculptors, photographers, performance artists and musicians--to make etchings, a medium grounded in techniques more than five centuries old. Through a traditional but maximally flexible approach, he was driven to prove that etching could be a successful contemporary medium, and the breadth, variety and creativity in the works he published is evidence of his success in making old ...
Joseph E. Yoakum
The extraordinary life of a captivating American artist, beautifully illustrated with his dreamlike drawings Much of Joseph Elmer Yoakum's story comes from the artist himself--and is almost too fantastic to believe. At a young age, Yoakum (1891-1972) traveled the globe with numerous circuses; he later served in a segregated noncombat regiment during World War I before settling in Chicago. There, inspired by a dream, he began his artistic career at age seventy-one, producing some two thousand drawings over a decade. How did Yoakum gain representation in major museum collections in Chicago and New York? What fueled his process, which he described as a "spiritual unfoldment"? This volume delves...
