*** PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY *** EVERY PROTECTION: Exploring Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Jewish Pale of Settlement
Debra Olin - Images Nathaniel Deutsch - Text September 27 - October 11, 2011 OPENING RECEPTION: Tuesday, September 27, 4-7 pm Until 1917, most Jews of the Russian Empire were restricted to a region called the Pale of Settlement, whey they created their own distinctive folk culture. In 1914 the writer, socialist revolutionary, and ethnographer, Sh. An-sky, produced a massive Yiddish ethnographic questionnaire to document this culture, including many questions concerning Jewish customs and beliefs connected to pregnancy and childbirth. In The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (Harvard University Press), UCSC Professor Nathaniel Deutsch has translated An-sky's questionnaire into English for the first time, placing it within a rich historical context. Collaborating with Deutsch and inspired by her deep interest in Jewish women's folk traditions, Debra Olin has created illuminating artworks that represent and explore the dangerous, magical, and above all, powerful experience of pregnancy and childbirth in the Pale of Settlement. Every Protection Exploring Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Jewish Pale of Settlement Debra Olin: Images and Nathaniel Deutsch: Text September 27 - October 11, 2011 Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College, Univ of CA at Santa Cruz Gallery hours: 11am - 4pm, Tu-Su For more information call: 831-459-2953 - Wheelchair accessible Opening reception: Tuesday, September 27, 4-7pm Until 1917, most Jews of the Russian Empire were restricted to a region called the Pale of Settlement, where they created their own distinctive folk culture. In 1914 the writer, socialist revolutionary, and ethnographer, Sh. An-sky, produced a massive Yiddish ethnographic questionnaire to document this culture, including many questions concerning Jewish customs and beliefs connected to pregnancy and childbirth. In The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (Harvard University Press), UCSC professor Nathaniel Deutsch has translated An-sky's questionnaire into English for the first time, placing it within a rich historical context. Collaborating with Deutsch and inspired by her deep interest in Jewish women's folk traditions, Debra Olin has created illuminating artworks that re-present and explore the dangerous, magical, and, above all, powerful experience of pregnancy and childbirth in the Pale of Settlement. http://cowell.ucsc.edu/smith_gallery/index.php --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
