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Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art - Ein Harod Museum

Helene Aylon
The Mishkan Le'Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel. 



Opening: Friday, 11:00 a.m. 27th January 2012.

Curators: Dvora Liss and David Sperber

This will be the first time in Israel that a museum has organized a major exhibition of Jewish feminist art by women who come from a traditional Jewish background.

Jewish Feminist art shares its themes with feminist art in general. Usually these are familiar subjects, such as power and oppression, body image, women as periphery, object-subject, blood and menstruation, and so on. Feminist Jewish works deal with subjects unique to the Jewish experience: niddah and immersion, hair covering, halakhic questions such as the problem of the agunah or halakhic infertility, women's prayer, and women in the study hall.