Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture

Article in The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle

Leon Cohen of The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle has written an article about the Conney Project:

This project, which sponsored the conference, was created in 2005 via a $500,000 grant from retired Madison businessman Marvin Conney and his wife Mildred. According to a UW-Madison release, the project is intended to be “a major center for both art and scholarship.”

In his opening remarks Monday, Rosenberg said the conference was intended to “look at how the particular education of Jewish artists and scholars” has or has not “seeped into and colored their practice.”

He posed an analogy of a whip, in whose handle and length one finds debates over such matters as multiculturalism and feminism, but at the tip, “the snap point,” the place where the traveling energy “turns to sound, there sits Jewish identity” and “discussion about Jews and art in the contemporary era.”

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