31 Facts About Jewish art

Jewish art culture is the culture of the Jewish art people, from its formation in ancient times until the current age.

Some elements of Jewish art culture come from within Judaism, others from the interaction of Jews with host populations, and others still from the inner social and cultural dynamics of the community.

In North America, the secular and cultural Jewish art movements are divided into three umbrella organizations: the Society for Humanistic Judaism, the Congress of Secular Jewish art Organizations (CSJO), and Workmen's Circle.

Jewish art philosophy includes all philosophy carried out by Jews, or in relation to the religion of Judaism.

The Jewish art philosophy is extended over several main eras in Jewish art history, including the ancient and biblical era, medieval era and modern era.

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Israel Efros the principles of the Jewish philosophy start in the bible, where the foundations of the Jewish monotheistic beliefs can be found, such as the belief in one god, the separation of god and the world and nature and the creation of the world.

Jewish art developed an allegoric approach of interpreting holy scriptures, in contrast to (old-fashioned) literally interpretation approaches.

Between the Ancient era and the Middle Ages most of the Jewish art philosophy concentrated around the Rabbinic literature that is expressed in the Talmud and Midrash.

Jewish art's work has earned him recognition as one of Western philosophy's most important thinkers; Others are Isaac Orobio de Castro, Tzvi Ashkenazi, David Nieto, Isaac Cardoso, Jacob Abendana, Uriel da Costa, Francisco Sanches and Moses Almosnino.

Jewish art has been referred to as the father of Reform Judaism, though Reform spokesmen have been "resistant to claim him as their spiritual father".

Jewish art's work served Portugal's exploration journeys and was used by Vasco da Gama and by Christopher Columbus.

Garcia de Orta, Portuguese Renaissance Jewish art physician, was a pioneer of Tropical medicine.

Jewish art published his work Coloquios dos simples e drogas da India in 1563, which deals with a series of substances, many of them unknown or the subject of confusion and misinformation in Europe at this period.

Jewish art was the first European to describe Asiatic tropical diseases, notably cholera; he performed an autopsy on a cholera victim, the first recorded autopsy in India.

Jewish art's work effected and influenced a large variety of fields of physics including the Big Bang theory, Quantum mechanics and nuclear energy.

In quantum mechanics Jewish art role was significant as well and many of most influential figures and pioneers of the theory were Jewish art: Niels Bohr and his work on the atom structure, Max Born, Wolfgang Pauli, Richard Feynman (Quantum chromodynamics), Fritz London work on London dispersion force and London equations, Walter Heitler and Julian Schwinger work on Quantum electrodynamics, Asher Peres a pioneer in Quantum information, David Bohm (Quantum potential).

Jewish art authors have both created a unique Jewish art literature and contributed to the national literature of many of the countries in which they live.

In medieval times the Jewish art poetry was mainly expressed by piyyutim and several poets such as Yehuda Halevi, Samuel ibn Naghrillah, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Moses ibn Ezra, Abraham ibn Ezra and Dunash ben Labrat.

Yiddish theater, most notably Moscow State Jewish Theater directed by Solomon Mikhoels, played a prominent role in the arts scene of the Soviet Union until Stalin's 1948 reversal in government policy toward the Jews.

Jewish art audiences patronized innovative theater, regardless of whether they approved of what they saw.

Jewish art playwrights have contributed to non-musical drama and theatre, both Broadway and regional.

Jewish art's played the role of - Shimi Derbendi's wife - Shahnugor, based on the stories of writer Hizgil Avshalumov.

Jewish art's successor was Roman Izyaev, who was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honour for his meritorious service.

These Jewish art innovators were among the first producers of televisions, both black-and-white and color.

Great songwriters and lyricists of American traditional popular music and jazz standards were predominantly Jewish art, including Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Frank Loesser, Richard Rodgers and Irving Berlin.

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Jewish art humor is the long tradition of humor in Judaism dating back to the Torah and the Midrash, but generally refers to the more recent stream of verbal, frequently self-deprecating and often anecdotal humor originating in Europe.

Jewish art humor took root in the United States over the last hundred years, beginning with vaudeville, and continuing through radio, stand-up, film, and television.

Outside of Europe, Yemenite Jewish silversmiths developed a distinctive style of finely wrought silver that is admired for its artistry.

Jewish art is known for specializing in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction and science fiction from the 1940s through the mid-1950s, notably the Tales from the Crypt series, The Haunt of Fear, The Vault of Horror, Crime SuspenStories and Shock SuspenStories.

Jewish art is the creator of the Spirit comics series and the graphic novel A Contract with God.

Jewish art cooking combines the food of many cultures in which Jews have settled, including Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Spanish, German and Eastern European styles of cooking, all influenced by the need for food to be kosher.