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.