MY TAPESTRIES: 36 SERIES > The Shoah (I-II) > The Shoah (II)
THE SHOAH (II)
– The Darkness of the Bleakest Days
The titles are phrases from poetry and songs expressing how the Jewish view of God, history, hope, and purpose was challenged.
- 11 tapestries (series in progress).
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“My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?”
2010
9 x 4 in
(“Eyli, Eyli, lomoh azovtoni?”)
“The nightingale of the Warsaw Ghetto,” Miriam Eisenstadt, was forced to sing this song by the German hangmen as they filmed the “life” of the Jews. One of the most widely recorded Yiddish songs, it was written for a musical staged in New York in 1896. The first line is in Hebrew from Psalm 22:1.
In the tapestry black is the color for God’s abandonment, and blue is for the involuntary distance to Him. The Hebrew letters are rough and monumental, as if carved out of huge, helpless rocks posing a bewildered question to God.
(Song: “Eyli, Eyli” - Lyrics: Jacob K. Sandle - Music: Jacob K. Sandler)
2010
9 x 4 in
(“Eyli, Eyli, lomoh azovtoni?”)
“The nightingale of the Warsaw Ghetto,” Miriam Eisenstadt, was forced to sing this song by the German hangmen as they filmed the “life” of the Jews. One of the most widely recorded Yiddish songs, it was written for a musical staged in New York in 1896. The first line is in Hebrew from Psalm 22:1.
In the tapestry black is the color for God’s abandonment, and blue is for the involuntary distance to Him. The Hebrew letters are rough and monumental, as if carved out of huge, helpless rocks posing a bewildered question to God.
(Song: “Eyli, Eyli” - Lyrics: Jacob K. Sandle - Music: Jacob K. Sandler)
