Feathery palm trees, swaying dancers, and butting rams are untraditional focal points in the contemporary Jewish papercuts of artist Deborah Heyman. In reinterpreting this nearly lost, venerable ...

References to a Jewish papercut date from the 14th century, and it became an important folk art among both Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews. Requiring only simple and readily available tools (paper, ...

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.

Waletzky, who died Dec. 8 at 90 was "one of the major artists of the American Yiddish cultural world and an innovator in the art of Jewish papercutting….Over three decades, her many drawings ...

Jerusalem and the art of Jewish paper cutting • In 2005, ... Cowan Texaco, a 20-inch x 16-inch papercut done in Phillips’ painterly papercut style, is made of 14 layers of fine papers, ...

A mesmerizing blend of visual art, storytelling, and plasma music through a traditional moving panor Experience The Magid Ensemble, a unique performance blending Jewish paper cut art, traditional ...

Seldom has a people's cultural expression changed in so short a period of time as the revolution that overtook the Jews with the invention of moveable type and the printed book.