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Virtual Conversation: "Living Jewish Art"—The Life & Work of Itshak Holtz

Recorded: Thursday, January 9, 2025 Visit https://www.eldridgestreet.org/events for all upcoming Museum at Eldridge Street programming. Explore diverse aspects of artist Itshak Holtz’s life and work with those who knew him, accompanied by a slideshow of some of his finest work. Richard McBee, noted expert on Jewish art and author of Living Jewish Art: The Work of Itshak Holtz (Abbeville Press, 2024) discusses the artist’s career in conversation with Sylvia Herskowitz, Director Emerita of Yeshiva University Museum, and artist-photographer Dr. Aliza Holtz, daughter of Itshak Holtz. Born in Warsaw, Itshak Holtz (1925–2018) lived and worked among the Orthodox Jewish communities of New York and Jerusalem, and in his paintings, he portrays various facets of the lives of the people in his community: their houses of worship, neighborhoods, work, families, and celebrations. His subjects were not idealized memories of the imagined past, but the real people around him, depicted with the warmth and insight of a community member. Holtz continued his artistic training after moving to New York, studying at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in the early 1950s. Author Richard McBee interviewed Holtz in his Manhattan studio for The Jewish Press in 2003, where he was still painting some 50 years into his career. As McBee describes "One glance around the studio, filled with paintings in progress, sketches, prints, and neatly arranged cans of brushes and tubes of oil paint, made it clear to me that Holtz was an authentic working artist, entirely dedicated to his craft and passion." The panelists discuss: -How Sylvia Herskowitz, then Director of Yeshiva University Museum, discovered the art of Holtz and later gave him his first exhibition, 1992-93 -The consequences of the groundbreaking Yeshiva University Museum exhibition -What the experience of growing up with an artist father was like for Aliza Holtz, and how this influenced her own art -Insights into the world of Hasidic Jewry depicted in Holtz’s paintings -Personal anecdotes about their interactions with the artist and impressions of his work About the Speakers: Richard McBee The author of "Living Jewish Art: The Work of Itshak Holtz," Richard McBee is a painter of biblical subject matter and a writer on Jewish art. He covered the Jewish art scene for the "Jewish Press" from 2000 to 2014; he has also written for the "Forward," "Jewish Week," "Jewish Ideas Daily," and "Mosaic Magazine." A founding member of the Jewish Art Salon, McBee continues to exhibit, lecture, and curate exhibitions of Jewish art. You can purchase your copy of McBee's book at https://www.abbeville.com/products/li... Aliza Holtz Dr. Aliza Holtz is an accomplished medical and scientific writer whose work has been published in numerous journals and spans a breadth of therapeutic areas. As a child, Dr. Holtz watched her father Itshak Holtz paint still lifes and portraits of people in their apartment studio. She and her mother often accompanied him on outdoor landscape painting sessions. By watching her father paint and listening to his conversations about art, she learned about composition, light, and color, which she applies to her own photography, which has been exhibited and published. Sylvia Herskowitz Sylvia Axelrod Herskowitz is the Director Emerita of the Yeshiva University Museum. In her 34-year tenure, she moved the Museum from the University’s main campus in Washington Heights to The Center for Jewish History on West 16th Street, which gave it an international presence and attracted thousands of visitors annually to exhibitions and programs. A founding member of the Council of American Jewish Museums, Mrs. Herskowitz was instrumental in promoting the careers of Jewish artists internationally. Under her leadership, the Museum exhibited the works of Itzhak Holtz in 1992.