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EDITORIAL
August 24, 2024
A Shtetl Sanctuary in the Skies
Artist and architect Anna Kamyshan, photographers: Tea Monselesan and Fanni Baranyi
If you are in possession of an Icarus soul with dreams of flying into the heavens in search of sanctuary, forgo the Roman poet Ovid’s paltry feathered wax wings and instead enter the neo-surrealist world of visionary artist and architect Anna Kamyshan.
Inspired by René Magritte's The Castle of the Pyrenees, Nabatele is Kamyshan’s large-scale aerostatic masterpiece of a life-sized, floating synagogue, suspended twenty-five meters over the Venetian Lagoon. Drawing on nabat—a call out in moments of danger—and softened by the Yiddish -ele, her work is a signal and a stance: present, steady, and persistent. Its continuously lit windows echo the ner tamid, the eternal flame, offering inner light as a response to the rising chaos of our times and to honor our resilience and continuity.
Nabatele: A Synagogue Over Venice, 2026, ©Anna Kamyshan
The piece is also inspired by Yiddishland, a non-territorial, cultural concept with roots in the early twentieth century of a "homeland without land” where our language, rituals, memory and stories reside. Kamyshan’s lauded installation speaks to our collective, diasporic belonging amidst contemporary global displacement.
Nabatele is the official Collateral Event at the 61st Venice Biennale. It is curated by Maria Veits and Yevgeniy Fiks and organized by the Montreal Jewish Museum and will be exhibited until September 16, 2026.
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Nikki Goldstein, Sept 2022. With Rabbi Schlanger. At home with daughter Liberty and husband Rowan Jacob. Rabbi Schlanger. After the Bondi massacre, people dropped flowers at the site. With (from left) Alex Ryvchin, Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Nikki Goldstein, Rabbi Ulman and Honourable Chris Minns, Premier of NSW.
// ESSAY
Four Strands of a Single Thread
A secular Jewish woman is called back from a coma by a rabbi blowing the shofar over her hospital bed, and two years later, that same rabbi is murdered in Australia's worst antisemitic terror attack, on the eve of the book they built together going out into the world. "Four Strands of a Single Thread" is a personal essay about how nearly dying, and then truly losing someone, remade one woman's relationship to her own Jewishness.
Shabbat Spirit, by Sharon Finzi – Bringing in the spirit for the weekly ritual of Shabbat
// POETRY
The Gift of Oneself
The gift of oneself is a brief poem that works as both an injunction and a journey: go toward the other, dwell in the word, and read the body, the soul to illuminate oneself. The text closes on a gesture of transmission: leave a footprint, ripen your first fruit, write "the root verse of a more Jewish tomorrow." It's a threshold poem for a better (Jewish) tomorrow.
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Quietly Iconic
Quietly Iconic is an editorial series by Meesh Meesh, celebrating Jewish creatives whose work has quietly shaped culture. Because sometimes the people who change the world aren't the loudest voices in the room.
