His teaching evolved from a demonstration he was asked to provide to coincide with a touring papercut exhibit from New York’s Jewish Museum in 1977.

Episode 4: Archie Granot Release date: Aug. 9, 2012 Max Thurm and his wife Sandra commissioned Israeli artist Archie Granot to create The Papercut Haggadah, which was displayed at MOCRA in 2012. In ...

Experience The Magid Ensemble, a unique performance blending Jewish paper cut art, traditional oral storytelling, and original plasma music. Using a moving panorama, known as a "cranky," this ...

Jewish Life Stories: A pioneering Jewish papercut artist, a circus clown on a humanitarian mission Remembering the Jewish pioneers from Israel and the world who made differences in their communities.

Another aspect of Jewish Art that concentrates on individual use, as opposed to public use (and in a way humanizes the printed word) is the twin, folk arts of micrography and papercuts.

I Am My Beloved's and My Beloved is Mine, a 12-inch x 12-inch papercut, from The Song of Songs, one of the extensive styles Phillips makes for her Judaica collection.

The Forward offered well-done appreciations of Yiddish artist Tsirl Waletzky and biologist Lynn Margulis. Waletzky, who died Dec. 8 at 90 was "one of the major artists of the American Yiddish ...