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Californias $276-million recall election on Sept. 14 consists of two questions. The first is, essentially, Should Gov. Gavin Newsom be given the heave-ho? The second is about who should replace him, and there are 46 people seeking to do just that who have qualified to be on the ballot.

Some of the people on the list are Jews.

I love San Francisco, its so beautiful, said Dan Kapelovitz, Green Party candidate and former San Francisco resident. The criminal defense lawyer is one of the three verified Jewish people on the list of candidates to replace Newsom if the vote to recall passes.

But Kapelovitzs position is actually that the governor shouldnt be recalled.

Im one of the few candidates campaigning vote no on the recall, he told J.

That said, he is balking at the way the California Democratic Party has asked people to not select anyone from the list of 46, which includes some of their own along with Republicans, Libertarians and independents. The Democratic Party is asking people simply to vote no on the first question, then skip the second one (or, as Newsom put it at a press conference: One question. One answer. No on the recall. Move on.)

I think thats really ridiculous and stupid, Kapelowitz said.

In fact, voters can answer either one of the questions, or both, or none. The Democratic Party has put forward no other big-name Democrat in order to stay (or at least appear) united.

Kapelovitz is running as a Green because he thinks the progressive ideas of that party are already things that a lot of left-leaning Californians agree with. He also supports ranked-choice voting, something he hopes would potentially weaken the hold the two big parties have on seats in California elections. One wouldnt know that from his candidate statement, however, which merely reads Can you dig it?

While there are several Republicans that have a chance of knocking Newsom out of the top spot, the one Republican known to be Jewish on the ballot is considered a long shot (he doesnt even make ripples on recent polls), even though his family is well known among chicken-eating Californians of a certain age. The Jewish Republican in question is Leo Zacky, a scion of the Zacky Farms family, purveyors of a familiar supermarket brand of poultry from their Fresno plant. (Historically, the farming of chickens and turkeys was a very Jewish industry in California, with hundreds of Jewish farming families in the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the Petaluma region.)

According to the L.A.-based Jewish Journal, the patriarch of the family came to the U.S. in 1903 and got into the bird business. The family had membership at Boyle Heights iconic Breed Street Shul. Leo Zacky is a great-grandson who helped revitalize his familys brand after bankruptcy in 2012.

Hes running on a low-tax, low-business-regulation platform and is strongly against mandatory vaccinations for adults and children, lockdowns and mask mandates because he thinks Covid-19 is part of a global plan orchestrated by the World Economic Forum.

And then theres Angelyne, the blonde Los Angeleno known for the mammoth billboards regularly scattered around the city featuring herself.

As revealed by the Hollywood Reporter in 2017, Angelyne (formerly Renee Goldberg) is the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Born in Poland, she lived in Israel before coming to Los Angeles and reinventing herself as a blonde bombshell famous for just existing.

This is actually the second time Angelyne has run for governor in a recall election. The pink-clad diva had thrown her hat into the ring in 2003 when Gov. Gray Davis was recalled and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Her platform, as stated on her website, ranges from positions on solving homelessness (paid for by churches, mosques and temples) and tax reform to an annual masquerade ball for people to dress up like a governor! and a bubble bath day where everyone has to clean something. She is also pro-otter.

With three (at least) Jewish names on the recall ballot, that puts the percentage of Jewish candidates on this list at 6.5 percent, far higher than the almost 3 percent of Californians who are Jewish. (Based on census results, the states population is around 39.5 million, and Brandeis University estimates there are 1.17 million Jews in the state).

It may surprise some people that the 46 names on the ballot are so diverse. But it really doesnt take that much to qualify.

Candidates have to be a citizen registered to vote in California. They cant have been convicted of a felony for bribery or extortion. Theyve got to file a lot of paperwork, though, and submit at least 65 signatures and pay slightly more than $4,000. With 7,000 signatures, filing becomes free.

Recall attempts are common in California. People tried to recall Newsom six times between March 2019 and June 2020, failing each time to qualify for the ballot. But this time things are looking dicey for the governor.

While a recent poll found that keep the governor is polling at an average of 48.8 percent and remove the governor is polling at an average of 47.6 percent, the remove voters are highly motivated and eager to vote. Its estimated many on the keep side are unlikely to bother filling out a ballot on a topic they werent in support of voting on in the first place.

Because the replacement candidate with the most votes will take over if the recall vote passes, Newsom could wind up being replaced by someone who received, in numerical terms, a very small fraction of California votes.

The idea that itll be Leo Zacky, Dan Kapelovitz or Angelyne seems unlikely. But California politics are anything but predictable, and maybe next year well all be celebrating Bubble Bath Day.

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For many years, nestled in the campus of Tel Aviv University, the Diaspora Museum made space for stories of Jews who had made their lives outside of Israel. The museum highlighted the importance of a diverse Jewish narrative while simultaneously creating a divide between Jews of Israel and Jews of the world. In the newly renovated and renamed Anu Museum of the Jewish People, this divide has been dismantled. Rather than focusing on the Diaspora, the museum places emphasis on inclusion.

The goal is for everyone to come, get interested and find a piece of themselves in the exhibitions, said Assaf Gamzu, Director of Education at Anu. The Diaspora Museum is a treasured institution. We wanted to honor the museum and keep its history intact while giving a new take on the subject of Jewish life around the world, said Gamzu.

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Gamzu, 37, is the former curator of the Comics and Cartoon Museum in Holon. He is an educator and a father. He speaks of the museum with great caring and enthusiasm.

In reworking the rich Diaspora Museum history into a new, more unified, and interactive form, Gamzu was able to draw on his past experiences in galleries as well as at home with his family.

It was important to us for children to be able to enjoy the exhibitions either on their own or together with their parents. We put a lot of thought into the way in which the content interacts with the viewer. We have the MishpachAnu program, which is a tour of the museum for the whole family, said Gamzu. In this path, kids receive a kit including riddles, stickers, maps and in ID bracelet that they can scan at various points throughout the museum. The scanned items are sent to their unique user and can be explored later.

In addition, the museum employed celebrated podcaster Yuval Malachi to tailor audio content for children, which accompanies their experience in the museum.

The podcast is available on our app and can be downloaded prior to arrival at the museum, added Gamzu.

In the Heroes Gallery, visitors can take in stories of Jewish artists, scientists, leaders and public figures from around the world over time. The individuals chosen represent a broad range of fields of interest, timelines and levels of influence. The idea is to present the immense scope of Jewish life around the globe.

In Gamzus eyes, there is truly something for everyone at Anu.

Come, just come visit, he urged.

The Anu Museum is open seven days a week. Entrance to the museum is possible with a Green Pass or negative corona test only.

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Within a few years of taking over his fathers gallery in Dusseldorf, Max Stern, pictured here as a young man, would be forced to flee Nazi Germany. Courtesy of Max Stern Art Restitution Project

It is rare for an exhibition to face such ill will before it even opens. But a show scheduled to open in Dusseldorf on 2 September, addressing the life and legacy of the Jewish art dealer Max Stern, has been shunned by the citys Jewish community, by the dealers estate and by the Canadian academics who are the worlds foremost experts on Stern.

Even patrons of the Stadtmuseum, where the exhibition is due to take place, want nothing to do with it. The Friends Association has no interest in supporting this exhibition, says Eckhard Kranz, its president. Odder still, Susanne Anna, the director of the Stadtmuseum, has refused any involvement. Anna did not respond to a request for comment.

Against this background, even the organisers of the contentious show, Deprived of Rights and Property: the Art Dealer Max Stern, are reluctant to talk about it. An interview before the press conference [on 1 September] is unfortunately not possible, Valentina Ilgenstein, a spokeswoman for the city of Dusseldorf told The Art Newspaper. I ask for your understanding.

So what went wrong? The roots of the troubles stretch back to December 2017, when the Dusseldorf mayor at the time, Thomas Geisel, abruptly cancelled an exhibition about Max Stern at the Stadtmuseum weeks before it was due to open. That show was a cooperative effort that was intended to travel to Haifa in Israel and Montreal, Canada.

The reasons Geisel gave for the cancellation were current demands for information and restitution in German museums in connection with the Galerie Max Stern. But he also suggested that the Stadtmuseum, which is run by the city, was unable to address the complex issues connected with Sterns life and legacy.

Facing a barrage of criticism, Geisel abruptly reversed his decision, promising that the exhibition would take place at a later date in a more complete and revised form. But by then he had lost the confidence of the Canadian scholars involved in the original show.

The 2017 cancellation came as a professional shock and, simply put, destroyed any trust I had in working with the cultural sector of the city of Dusseldorf, says Catherine MacKenzie, a professor of art history at Concordia University, Montreal, and a co-curator of the original exhibition and co-editor of the catalogue.

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Founded in 1913, Galerie Stern was located on Dusseldorfs Knigsallee. Max Stern took over the gallery after the death of his father in 1934. The Nazis ordered him to liquidate it in 1935, but he managed to run the business until 1937, when he was forced to close and sell his stock at an auction in Cologne.

Stern fled Germany and settled in Montreal, where he built a thriving art business as the director and, later, owner of the Dominion Gallery. He died childless in 1987 and bequeathed the bulk of his estate to three universities: Concordia and McGill in Montreal, and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 2002 his estate launched an initiative to recover his lost art, the Max Stern Art Restitution Project.

WIlhelm von Schadows The Artists Children (1830), in the Dusseldorf city collection, is subject to a restitution claim by the Stern estate

Clarence Epstein, who heads the project, says the estate could not participate in the new show without the involvement of the Canadian scholars and Anna, the director of the Stadtmuseum.

It didnt help that the mayor seemed a little dubious about our outstanding claim, Epstein says. The project is seeking the return of a painting in the citys collection by Wilhelm von Schadow, The Artists Children (1830), which once hung in the mayors office.

The curator of the new exhibition, Dieter Vorsteher, said in a press conference on 12 July that the show will address this restitution claim. Hans-Georg Lohe, the citys top culture official, expressed regret at the ill feeling and personal hurt caused by the cancellation of the original show. We will reflect on this very clearly in the exhibition, he said.

The Jewish Community Dusseldorf took part in the planning of the first exhibition with the Canadian and Israeli partners. Oded Horowitz, the president of the organisation, stressed that the discussion about restitution and Sterns legacy is important. But he said the community has taken no role in the current show. Nonetheless, he says, we wish the exhibition every success.

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(JTA) The office of Israels chief Ashkenazi rabbi wants to exhume from a Jerusalem cemetery the body of a woman said to be a Christian who pretended to be Jewish.

A top representative of Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau outlined the plan in June to exhume or alternatively fence off the womans grave. Or LAchim, an organization that tries to counter Christian proselytization in Israel, published the chief rabbis position laid out by the representative, Rabbi Raphael Altman, on its Facebook page this week.

Exhumation is an extreme measure in Judaism, where mortal remains should not be disturbed.

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In April, Israeli and international media reported that the husband had been unmasked as a Christian missionary after years of living as a rabbi and a scribe in a haredi Orthodox community in the Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill.

The man, who was not named, told the Israeli media that he had been born Jewish and joined Jews for Jesus, a movement that Jews generally do not recognize as belonging to Judaism. But he had since returned to Orthodox Judaism, he said.

But his late wife was not Jewish and should not be buried at a Jewish cemetery, the chief rabbis office said, because that would be unfair to the Jews buried around her and their relatives, who believed they were buried along with their coreligionists, as is customary in traditional Judaism.

All efforts must be done to move her to a non-Jewish plot, Altman wrote in June. If thats impossible, a fence should be put around the grave.

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(New York Jewish Week via JTA) For comfort food, Kylie Unell, a philosophy student and comedy-show producer, heads to Izzys BBQ Smokehouse. The Crown Heights restaurant is not distinctly Jewish, but it is kosher BBQ that rivals the Kansas City BBQ I grew up eating, she says.

Meanwhile, Rachel Figurasmith, the executive director of Repair the World NYC, heads to Lee Lees Baked Goods in Harlem, a decades-old rugelach joint operated by Alvin Lee Smalls, an octogenarian Black man originally from South Carolina whose first encounter with the buttery Jewish pastry came while working as a chef in a hospital kitchen.

Kelly Whitehead, a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College, makes frequent visits to the Brooklyn Museum, especially, she said, to see The Dinner Party, a room-sized art installation by the feminist Jewish artist Judy Chicago.

And while Rabbi Ben Goldberg lives near the synagogue in Westchester County where he works, he heads to B&H Dairy in the East Village whenever he can. For me, this place is heaven on earth, said Goldberg.

Those are just some of the places that this years New York Jewish Week 36 Under 36 suggested when we asked them about their favorite places to eat Jewish food in the city and to take out-of-town guests.

Use the map below the explore the full set of suggestions. Be sure to click on each pin on the map to see comments from the 36er who recommended it.

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has decided that graduate student Kylie Broderick will be allowed to teach the Fall course, The Conflict Over Israel/Palestine, despite her long public history of attacking Israel.

Classes began on August 18.

Broderick recently tweeted the term Zionist dirtbags which is similar to the commonly used antisemitic slur dirty Jew.

Broderick promotes the idea that Israel should not exist, demands everyone at UNC boycott Israeli products, declares that Palestinians are the only legitimate side in the conflict, and pressures undergrads to stop hiding and Do whats right. Support a #freePalestine now.

UNC Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz dismissed concerns he received from many Jewish leaders and community members, stating he is confident that students enrolled in Brodericks class will benefit from a thoughtful presentation of information relevant to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

The Chancellors response outraged the Jewish community.

Since then, UNC has held many meetings on this issue with multiple Jewish leaders and alumni.

One local rabbi told UNC officials to rename the course The Palestinian Point of View.

Rather than remove Broderick, multiple sources report that UNCs plan may include some or all the following: having a representative from the UNC Carolina Center for Jewish Studies monitor the class; having Broderick engage with the Center for Jewish Studies; having tests blindly graded; and a mid-year student survey to be seen by Broderick and her mentor.

All classes will be recorded, which may be an additional oversight of Broderick or may be a standard COVID measure. It is unclear who will be able to view the recordings.

Many Jewish leaders tell me that this UNC plan is dreadfully inadequate because it doesnt ensure that Jewish and pro-Israel students will be graded fairly, or have the opportunity to experience the same academic freedoms as their peers.

Rabbi Zalman Bluming of Durham/Chapel Hillel told me, Having the honor of being engaged with thousands of UNC students for close to 20 years, I am deeply disappointed with the incredibly disturbing and underwhelming response from UNC. I can guarantee that this would not be tolerated in any other discipline on campus.

Rabbi Emeritus Fred Guttman of Temple Emanuel in Greensboro told me, This lecturers prejudice against Israel will stunt nuanced discourse and ostracize Jewish students.

Jewish leaders have shared with UNC officials recent examples of severe hostility some Jewish students have faced on campus or in the classroom, but are too scared to report to the university.

One Jewish UNC student I interviewed trembled on the phone as she talked about widespread hostility on campus. The student will not allow me to publicly share her story, even anonymously, because she fears the backlash and anger she would face on campus.

Evyatar Marienberg, a faculty member at UNCs Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, responded to me, via email, noting Brodericks extreme biases and described people like Broderick as having the disease of misrepresenting realities and simple old antisemitism.

This current teaching scandal is unfolding as UNC is still reeling from a 2019 scandal when the university hosted and co-sponsored the Conflict Over Gaza conference, which made international news for featuring a rappers blatantly antisemitic performance.

In response to an antisemitism complaint filed with the US Department of Education stemming from this conference, UNC entered into a Resolution Agreement with the departments Office of Civil Rights, requiring UNC to ensure that students enrolled in the University are not subjected to a hostile environment.

Kylie Broderick publicly dismissed this Resolution Agreement in a local paper, calling it an attack by the federal government. Yet UNC still stands by her.

On May 19, 2021, the same three UNC departments that are sponsoring Brodericks Israel/Palestine course,co-sponsoredan anti-Israel Zoomevent with Jadaliyya, a pro-Palestinian advocacy organization and publishing outlet.

Broderick is managing editor at Jadaliyya. Broderickand Sarah Shields the current and recent Israel/Palestine UNC course instructors moderated the event.

During one of the events anti-Israel rants, a speaker accused Israel of settler colonialismand persistent ethnic cleansing, spoke of an Israeli war machine, and said hurling rocks at Israelis should not be considered terrorism, but rather rational behavior. The speaker also promoted the BDS boycott movement, and called Israel an apartheid state.

The chancellor and other senior UNC administrators are obligated by the Resolution Agreement to ensure that students enrolled in the University are not subjected to a hostile environment. Having a known Israel-hater who tweets about Zionist dirtbags and promotes the view that Israel should not exist teach a course on Israel is indeed a hostile environment.

Peter Reitzes is a board member of Voice4Israel of North Carolina and writes about issues related to antisemitism and Israel.

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Just in time for the upcoming high holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Bay Area-based Jewish deli Wise Sons opens its first Southern California restaurant in downtown Culver City today.

Over the past decade, Wise Sons has earned its reputation for honoring the classics, including hardwood-smoked pastrami, made with hormone and antibiotic-free beef and house-baked goods like bagels, bialy and buttery babka filled with Guittard chocolate. The intoxicating aroma of everything bagels and onion bialy wafts its way out onto Washington Blvd. and they definitely deserve a spot on the best bagels list not too doughy and the perfect vehicle and size for the classic smoked salmon breakfast.

Other menu highlights include the OG Reuben, Matzo Ball Soup made with organic chicken broth, Potato Latkes, Naturally Fermented Sour Pickles, and Bodega Egg & Cheese Sandwich served on bagel or bialy. The smoked trout salad on rye is exceptional alongside their coleslaw (the true test of a good deli).

Unique to the L.A. menu is a classic Diner Tuna Melt with wild albacore, lettuce, tomato, horseradish aioli, griddled with American and Swiss on rye. The No. 19 pays tribute to Langers Deli the untoasted sandwich features Russian dressing and cold Swiss on rye.

Growing up in Southern California, I have immense respect for the Jewish delis in Los Angeles some of my earliest deli memories are in the booths of legendary places like Langers, Brents and Pico Kosher Deli so this is a bit of a homecoming for me, says Wise Sons Founder Evan Bloom in a statement. Los Angeles has the best collection of Jewish deli food in the world and were excited to join that already existing pantheon.

A collection of framed family photos that tells the story of the Bloom family, starting with Evans great-grandparents Jewish deli outside Boston and a wall of pendants by Scott Richards pays respect to some of L.A.s more renowned Jewish delis. A mural on the back wall by Berkeley-based illustrator Alexandra Bowman illustrates the colorful and chaotic deli scene at Wise Sons.

The modern deli has indoor and outdoor seating and is already buzzing with lines out the door during their soft opening. Theres no deli counter, but everything is available to go in bulk or prepared dishes strongly suggest calling those orders in ahead of time. They are taking holiday catering orders now.

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Magen David Adom has been prioritizing the task of placing defibrillators in public spaces throughout Israel this year. Already, thousands have been installed around the country, including hundreds to be added in Jerusalem synagogues before Rosh Hashanah.

Defibrillators can be operated without medical training and are intended to save lives in the event of a heart attack until emergency crews arrive.

The operation comes as the result of a joint initiative by MDA director-general Eli Bin and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion. The Jerusalem Defibrillator Project was launched this month at the Jerusalem Great Synagogue, the citys largest and most central synagogue, as a result of support from American and international donors.

The projectthe first of its scale in the countrywas made possible with contributions from the International Fellowship for Christians and Jews and New Jerseys Cross River Bank. The inauguration ceremony was attended by Lion; Bin; and funders Yael Eckstein, president and chief executive officer of the Fellowship; and Gilles Gade, founder, president and chief executive officer of the bank.

One moment during the ceremony that moved the audience was when a 38-year-old Jerusalem resident, father of five, shared his story of resuscitation, during which he received 12 electric shocks. As soon as he stepped off the stage, Eckstein announced the Fellowships donation of another 230 devices to additional synagogues in Jerusalem.

A defibrillator is often the difference between life and death, she said. We are grateful to our more than 600,000 donors around the world who are making it possible to save and improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of Israelis and Jews in the Diaspora.

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The alleged Iranian regime mass murderer Hamid Noury, who is currently on trial in Stockholm, Sweden for the massacre of 136 Iranians in Gohardasht prison in Karaj, invited former Iranian intelligence chief and internationally wanted terrorist Ali Fallahian, to dinner.

The International Criminal Police Organization issued an arrest warrant for Fallahian due to his role in the bombing of the Asociacin Mutual Israelita Argentina Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994, resulting in the murder of 85 people and injury of hundreds.

The revelation was disclosed in August by the London-based Iran International news organization on its Persian language website.

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Fallahian was the intelligence minister from 1989 to 1997 during the tenure of late president Ali Akbar Rafsanjani.

Interpol also sought Fallahian with respect to his involvement in the assassination of three Kurdish-Iranian opposition leaders in West Berlins Mykonos Greek restaurant in 1992.

Noury sent the text messages to Fallahian and to Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, the current head of the judiciary, in 2019 during Ramadan. The Swedish police preserved the messages from his mobile telephone and the notations of the text messages were part of the interrogation of Noury following his November 2019 arrest.

Interpol wrote in 2007, The Executive Committee also endorsed the Office of Legal Affairs conclusion that Red Notices should not be issued for former President of Iran, Ali Rafsanjani, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Ali Akbar Velayati and former Ambassador of Iran in Buenos Aires, Hadi Soleimanpour.

Daniel Marcus, the defense attorney for the 60-year-old Noury, denied that his client worked at the prison where the purge of political prisoners took place. The trial of Noury is expected to end in April 2022.

Ejei, to whom Noury sent a dinner invitation, was sanctioned by the US and the EU for his role in the violent crackdown on demonstrators who protested the reportedly fraudulent reelection of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009.

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NEW YORK In 1937, the Nazi Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda removed Marc Chagalls Purim from the walls of the Museum of Folkwang in Essen, Germany. Depicting people exchanging food and sweets, the vibrant painting was deemed degenerate and summarily sold to a Berlin art collector and Nazi party member.

Now, 75 years after the end of World War II, the painting is one of 53 works of art and 80 ceremonial objects on display at New Yorks Jewish Museum.

The exhibit, titled Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art, opens Friday and will run through January 2022. Recounting how these works withstood the violence of war, it details their often-complicated postwar rescue in a meditation on loss and recovery both on an individual and collective scale.

The exhibit is a sobering reminder of that history. We wanted to tell a concise and clear story of the looting but also to tell the story of recovery and ongoing restitution. Its about coming to terms with what happened, said Jewish Museum chief curator Darsie Alexander.

During the war, the Nazis systematically pillaged untold numbers of artworks and pieces of cultural property. They did it to enrich the Third Reich and to erase all traces of Jewish identity and culture. Although innumerable pieces remain missing, an estimated one million artworks and 2.5 million books have so far been recovered.

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Of the pieces on display, it is perhaps the story of two Henri Matisse paintings, The Girl in Yellow and Blue with Guitar and Daisies, that truly epitomize the exhibits theme, said assistant curator Sam Sackeroff.

Jewish Museum chief curator Darsie Alexander (Photo by Margaret Fox) and Lerman-Neubauer assistant curator Sam Sackeroff. (Courtesy)

The Nazis stole both paintings from renowned French Jewish gallerist Paul Rosenberg, who had stored them in a bank vault in Bordeaux, France, before escaping to the United States, said Sackeroff.

The Nazis simultaneously broke into Rosenbergs Paris gallery and turned it into an office space for the Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question. From behind Rosenbergs desk they organized Le Juif en France, one of historys largest antisemitic exhibitions.

The paintings were then moved first to the German Embassy, then to the Musee du Louvre, and finally to Jeu de Paume, which the Nazis used as a storage depot.

On November 27, 1942, Gustave Rochlitz, an art dealer acting on behalf of Hermann Goering, arrived at the Jeu de Paume to peruse the stockpile of stolen art. Girl in Yellow and Blue was one of four paintings he took that day. Until the Allies recovered it in 1944, the painting hung in Goerings estate in southwest Germany. Daisies stayed in Paris.

The paintings remained apart for decades until they both entered the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago; Daisies in 1983 and Girl in Yellow and Blue in 2007.

Henri Matisse, Girl in Yellow and Blue with Guitar, 1939. (The Art Institute of Chicago Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; image provided by The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, New York/ Jewish Museum NYC)

One thing we grappled with was how to make the story resonate, since the number of survivors that can engage with what happened on a personal level with this history is dwindling. Using emotional language around the works gives visitors a way to access those feelings, Sackeroff said.

Visitors to the exhibit will also see Claude Lorrains 1655 Battle on a Bridge. Sold under duress, the painting was selected for Adolf Hitlers never-built personal museum.

And, among the works by Paul Klee, Gustave Courbet and Camile Pissarro, they will see Otto Freundlichs 1938 painting The Unity of Life and Death. A German Jewish artist, Freundlich hid in a small mountain town in the Pyrenees from 1940 until his arrest in 1943. He was murdered in the Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp in Poland upon arrival.

Numerous ritual objects are also on display, including a tiered seder plate originally from Poland and a sterling silver spice container dating back to the mid-1500s. The objects highlight the museums role in identifying and retrieving the scores of ritual objects that were stolen from homes and synagogues during and after the war.

Post-WWII, the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. (JCR) helped place more than 300,000 books and 10,000 ceremonial objects in synagogues and Jewish communities worldwide. The spice container was sent to the Jewish Museum in August 1949. It was nestled in one of 83 crates containing more than 3,000 pieces of ritual silver.

Eventually, 220 of those objects entered the museums permanent collection. Some still bear their small aluminum identification tag inscribed with a Star of David and the letters JCR.

Tiered seder plate from the 18th-19th century. (Gift of the Danzig Jewish Community to The Jewish Museum NYC)

A second group of objects came to the museum from the Jewish community in Danzig (now Gdansk) Poland. Once it became clear the Nazis would pillage the citys Great Synagogue, the Jewish community worked with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to save as many items as possible. They boxed 10 crates of material and shipped them to New Yorks Jewish Theological Seminary. In 1954, the museum accessioned some of those objects.

The exhibit is a story of facts, of what happened. There is also the emotional side. But we were also constantly stunned at the extraordinary effort to destroy Jewish culture, Alexander said. The objects in this part of the exhibit show that that didnt happen. The culture survived, flourished and endured.

The museum also commissioned the work of four contemporary artists to address the magnitude of the Nazis cultural theft.

Silver Torah finials from the 18th century. (Jewish Cultural Reconstruction. The Jewish Museum NYC)

Maria Eichhorn, a Berlin-born artist, incorporates images of looted books and archival documents to highlight the role that people such as Hannah Arendt played in recovery efforts. Israeli artist Hadar Gad examines the connections between memory and place. Dor Guez, based in Jaffa, Israel, mines his Christian, Palestinian and Tunisian Jewish roots to produce his large-scale paintings.

Lastly, Brooklyn-based artist Lisa Oppenheim explores how photography can help people understand loss.

Oppenheim scoured the archives of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) the main Nazi art looting task force for never-restituted still life paintings, and eventually discovered a black-and-white photograph of a still life by French artist Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer.

As documented by the ERR, the original painting, likely destroyed during an Allied bombardment, was stolen from 17 Rue Cardonay in Paris and taken to the Jeu de Paume on December 10, 1942.

Materials recovered by Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. in storage at the Jewish Museum, circa 1949. (Archives of the Jewish Museum, New York)

To make her piece, Oppenheim first photographed the photograph from the archives. Next, she found a street view on Google Maps of the Parisian apartment where the still life had last lived, she said on the audio tour of the exhibit. Then, using what she described as a smoke technique, she used a flame to expose the images.

So you get a very kind of other-worldly kind of image that could occupy any space or time, she said in the recording. Im using the photograph of the painting that was most likely destroyed by fire, so again, fire not only being destructive force, in terms of destroying this painting that was already stolen, but also a generative force that creates a new image in my darkroom.

Looted artworks in storage at the Central Collecting Point, Munich, circa 1945-1949. (Johannes Felbermeyer/ Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles)

That idea, of creating a new image, a new way to consider the Nazis efforts to eradicate Jewish culture, goes to the heart of the exhibit.

While there is a focus on the looting, there is as much, if not more, attention on recovery, Sackeroff said.

Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art runs from August 20, 2021, through January 9, 2022.

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