Blessings: Art and Essays on Jewish Blessings

Introduction

This catalogue contains artwork, two curatorial studies and scholarly essays from exhibitions and a symposium mounted by Loren Lerner at Montreal's Temple Emanu-El Beth Sholom. Artists under discussion include Marcel Braitstein, Sylvia Safdie, Marion Wagschal, Devora Neumark, Sorel Cohen and Rita Briansky.

The volume includes an introduction by Loren Lerner, Chair, Dept. of Fine Arts, Concordia University, and essays by Rabbis Howard Joseph and Leigh Lerner, Norma Joseph and Norman Ravvin. Artists' illustrations in colour. The curatorial essays discuss both the artists and the Judaica collection in the Temple's Aron Museum.

How to order

Copies can be purchased by mailing a cheque for $15.95 to Hungry I Books, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., SB-215, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8. Cheques should be made payable to: Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies.

Copies are also for sale at the Concordia University Bookstore, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal.