Visual Moment Archives

16 Jul

Arts, Highlights, Summer 2025, Visual Moment

Visual Moment | 50 Years, 50 Noted American Jews in the Arts

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Diane M. Bolz

July 17, 2025

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The array of talent seems endless.

02 Jul

Highlights, Latest, Visual Moment

Artist Ben Shahn’s Nonconformity

Posted by

Frances Brent

July 10, 2025

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As a friend of his put it, “These were the works of a famous man, not a famous artist.”

Arts, Visual Moment

Visual Moment | KEY to 50 Years, 50 Noted American Jews in the Arts

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Diane M. Bolz

July 29, 2025

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Jewish Museum (Jüdisches Museum) Berlin, Germany; designed by Daniel Liebeskind A Passover Haggadah; drawings by Leonard Baskin Wrap dress; designed by Diane von Furstenberg ...

16 Apr

Spring 2025, Visual Moment

Visual Moment | The Secret Life of an Art Deco Diva

Posted by

Diane M. Bolz

April 17, 2025

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“She always understood the power of an image.”

09 Dec

2024 November/December, Letters to the Editor

The Conversation

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Moment

December 9, 2024

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“The fall issue of Moment was a treasure trove of just how Jewish Americans might negotiate the impending governmental challenges at home and abroad.”

19 Jan

Visual Moment, Winter Issue 2023

Visual Moment | Tales of Rifles and Resistance

Posted by

Diane M. Bolz

January 19, 2023

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These are the words of Faye Schulman, who, at age 16 during World War II, fled to the forests outside her hometown of Lenin, Poland, after witnessing her entire family being executed by the Nazis.

09 Oct

Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, This Moment in Art

This Moment in Art: Draping the Ambassador’s House, Samaritans and More

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Moment

October 17, 2023

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As we embark on a new year, we can find respite and renewal in the trove of rich and varied museum exhibitions and cultural happenings that are once again burgeoning in our cities.

Jewish Photo Album saved from Holocaust, found, and returned to family

15 Mar

2019 March-April, Jewish World, Visual Moment

Visual Moment | Lost & Found: Solving a Holocaust Mystery

Posted by

Diane M. Bolz

April 4, 2021

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Lost and Found exhibit at Yeshiva University's museum traces the story of a photo album smuggled out of Lithuania's Kovno Ghetto, from its original disappearance through the investigation that found the owner's descendants teaching Yiddish in the United States.

16 Jan

Visual Moment, Winter Issue 2019

Visual Moment | A (Torah) Scribe Goes to Washington

Posted by

Sarah Breger

December 23, 2021

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It’s one of the more unsavory parts of the Bible. Lot, after the destruction of Sodom, is seduced by his two daughters, who think they are the world’s sole survivors.

05 Nov

2018 November-December, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Visual Moment

Visual Moment | The Beguiling Language of Dress

Posted by

Diane M. Bolz

January 2, 2022

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Ribbed moiré silk from Greece, tulle and silver-tinsel embroidery from Egypt, silk satin from Ottoman Palestine, indigo-dyed goat hair from Iraqi Kurdistan, brocaded silk ikat...

28 Mar

2018 March/April, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Visual Moment

Visual Moment | The Ringelblum Archive

Posted by

Marilyn Cooper

October 8, 2020

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Even before the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-1943) knew of the “Final Solution,” they understood that their story needed to be preserved. Under the...

17 Jan

2018 January/February, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Visual Moment

An Artist’s Secret, Now Fully Revealed

Posted by

Diane M. Bolz

October 8, 2020

When Charlotte (called Lotte by her family) was eight years old, her mother died. At the time she was told the cause was influenza—the truth was kept a carefully guarded secret.