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Amelia and Margot

PC: Corey Pressman 2018

Black Bread

“Ethel Zloczower, a Romanian Jewish teacher, stands by a bread pantry in the children’s home in Vence”
PC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph Fisera

TimTum

PC: Micah Bazant 1999

A Book of Jewish Women’s Prayers

Tkhine of the Matriarchs for the New Moon of Elul by Serl bat R’ Yankev Sega”l of Dubno PC: Wikimedia Commons

Oma and Bella

PC: Jewish International Film Festival

Hungering For America

Jews in Lodz, Poland brought their dishes for ritual purification (Diner, Hungering For America, 153)

Week 7 Update

It has been really hard for me to get into a groove with this project. Winter quarter ennui seems to have gotten the better of me and I…

Tkhines

The religious differences between men and women in shtetls were not only defined by the public and private spheres, the contrast was also found in prayer. Given no…

Keeping Warm in the Cold

Last night was hard for me. It was my first day of full research and while at the time I did not feel the emotional weight of it…

Starting my work!

I’ve just started my work. This whole project is sort of daunting for me as I have never made a zine before and am still in the beginning…