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Liora Ostroff and Naomi Rose Weintraub are the curator-in-residence and artist-in-residence, respectively, for The Jewish Museum of Maryland (JMM). They explore, in conversation with Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg, a recent exhibition that they helped to install at JMM, entitled A Fence Around the Torah: Safety and Unsafety in Jewish Life. 

We encourage to explore the exhibition yourself, before you listen to this episode, or as you listen to it, via AFenceAroundTheTorah.com. 

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To view the works of J.D. Kirszenbaum, please visit the website created by Mr. Diament and please follow this link to see a presentation from Nathan Diament on the life and work of Kirszenbaum.

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Show Notes

04:30 Kirszenbaum’s work in Belgium after World War II

07:00 Israeli Museum Curator’s belief Kirszenbaum’s legacy should not die

07:40 Prof. Ziva Amishai-Maisels’ encouragement of Diament’s research

08:30 Art Loss Register and Kandinsky Library at Centre Pompidou 

09:15 600 of Kirszenbaum’s works burned during World War II

10:30 Baroness Alix de Rothschild’s assistance

11:20 Tel Aviv Museum’s works by Kirszenbaum

12:00 Dutch Artist Paul Lindgreen, a student of Kirszenbaum’s

12:20 Frans Hals Museum in Holland

13:50 Approximately 200 of Kirszenbaum’s works located

14:20 Israeli Exhibition of Kirszenbaum’s work in 2013

16:30 Baroness Alix de Rothschild’s assistance

19:20 Book J.D. Kirszenbaum (1900-1954) The Lost Generation

21:00 Croatian exhibition of Kirszenbaum’s work

22:00 Dutch Artist Paul Lindgreen, a student of Kirszenbaum’s

23:30 German exhibition of Kirszenbaum’s work

24:00 French exhibition of Kirszenbaum’s work upcoming

25:00 Kirszenbaum’s works about the Messiah and the Prophets

26:00 Tel Aviv Museum; Kirszenbaum’s Self Portrait with Cubism

26:55 Kirszenbaum’s caricatures in Germany during the world wars

28:00 Kandinsky Library at the Pompidou Center 

30:00 Baroness Alix de Rothschild’s assistance

34:45 Influences of Kandisky and Klee

35:55 Horseman of the Apocalypse

36:20 Kirszenbaum’s emancipation 

37:00 Chagall’s life and sources similar to Kirszenbaum’s 

42:40 Felix Nussbaum and Royal Museum of Belgium’s letter about Nussbaum

44:40 S.S. St. Louis

46:40 Baroness Alix de Rothschild commission of Prophets Triptych (Elias, Jeremiah, Moses)

50:00 Diament’s membership with Yad Vashem’s Commission of the Just

Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com

To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.

Music by Toulme.

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To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com.

Thanks so much for listening!

© Stephanie Drawdy [2024]

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