Book Description
Instructs the user how to create sewing projects for Jewish celebrations.
Author : M. Bywater
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Fasts and feasts
ISBN : 9780996858229
Instructs the user how to create sewing projects for Jewish celebrations.
Author : Jody Savin
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art
ISBN : 9781945551765
A child survivor of the Holocaust, Trudie Strobel settled in California, raising a family and never discussing the horrors she witnessed. After her children grew up, the trauma of her youth caught up with her, triggering a paralyzing depression. A therapist suggested that Trudie attempt to draw the memories that haunted her, and she did--but with needle and thread instead of a pencil. Resurrecting the Yemenite stitches of her ancestors, and using the skills taught by her mother, whose master seamstress talent saved their lives in the camps, Trudie began by stitching vast tableaus of her dark and personal memories of the Holocaust. What began as therapy exploded into works of breathtaking art, from narrative tapestries of Jewish history rendered in exacting detail to portraits of remarkable likeness, and many of her works are now in public and private collections. InStitched & Sewn, Jody Savin tells the dramatic story of how a needle and thread saved Trudie Strobel's life twice, and Ann Elliott Cutting's photographs showcase Trudie's remarkable works of art. With a foreword by Michael Berenbaum, author of eighteen books, co-founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and co-producer of the Academy Award-winning documentaryOne Survivor Remembers.
Author : Cantor Deborah Katchko-Gray
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780578496306
A how-to book on creating an heirloom quality tallit/prayer shawl, challah or bread cover, or even a table runner using Swedish weaving and Jewish designs. Using meaningful fabric to create a family heirloom can add to the spiritual value of the creation. Photos and descriptions with detailed explanations make this a unique craft book.
Author : Lucy Adlington
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0063030942
A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp—mainly Jewish women and girls—were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. This fashion workshop—called the Upper Tailoring Studio—was established by Hedwig Höss, the camp commandant’s wife, and patronized by the wives of SS guards and officers. Here, the dressmakers produced high-quality garments for SS social functions in Auschwitz, and for ladies from Nazi Berlin’s upper crust. Drawing on diverse sources—including interviews with the last surviving seamstress—The Dressmakers of Auschwitz follows the fates of these brave women. Their bonds of family and friendship not only helped them endure persecution, but also to play their part in camp resistance. Weaving the dressmakers’ remarkable experiences within the context of Nazi policies for plunder and exploitation, historian Lucy Adlington exposes the greed, cruelty, and hypocrisy of the Third Reich and offers a fresh look at a little-known chapter of World War II and the Holocaust.
Author : Martin Greenfield
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1621572668
He's been called "America's greatest living tailor" and "the most interesting man in the world." Now, for the first time, Holocaust-survivor Martin Greenfield tells his whole, incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz with his family, Greenfield came face-to-face with "Angel of Death" Dr. Joseph Mengele and was divided forever from his parents, sisters, and baby brother. In haunting, powerful prose, Greenfield remembers his desperation and fear as a teenager alone in the death camp--and how an impulsive decision to steal an SS soldier's shirt dramatically altered the course of his life. He learned how to sew; and when he began wearing the shirt under his prisoner uniform, he learned that clothes possess great power and could even help save his life. Measure of a Man is the story of a man who suffered unimaginable horror and emerged with a dream of success. From sweeping floors at a New York clothing factory to founding America’s premier handmade suit company, Greenfield built a fashion empire. Now 86-years-old and working with his sons, Greenfield has dressed the famous and powerful of D.C. and Hollywood, including Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama and celebrities Paul Newman, Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jimmy Fallon. Written with soul-baring honesty and, at times, a wry sense of humor, Measure of a Man is a memoir unlike any other--one that will inspire hope and renew faith in the resilience of man.
Author : Diana Drew
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781683361534
Make your own Jewish fabric crafts with spiritual intention--venture into a world of creativity, imagination and inspiration. These projects and stories will resonate with your artistic soul and awaken a desire to hand-craft keepsakes for the generations.
Author : Linda Elovitz Marshall
Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0761352163
Every day Grandma Rose sews for her friends and neighbors and puts away the money she earns, saving for a set of dishes just like her grandmother's Shabbos dishes.
Author : Alan Lew
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 17,45 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1580231152
From Zen Buddhist practitioner to rabbi, East meets West in this firsthand account of a spiritual journey. Rabbi Alan Lew is known as the Zen Rabbi, a leader in the Jewish meditation movement who works to bring two ancient religious traditions into our everyday lives. One God Clapping is the story of his roundabout yet continuously provoking spiritual odyssey. It is also the story of the meeting between East and West in America, and the ways in which the encounter has transformed how all of us understand God and ourselves. Winner of the PEN / Joseph E. Miles Award Like a Zen parable or a Jewish folk tale, One God Clapping unfolds as a series of stories, each containing a moment of revelation or instruction that, while often unexpected, is never simple or contrived. One God Clapping, like the life of the remarkable Alan Lew himself, is a bold experiment in the integration of Eastern and Western ways of looking at and living in the world.
Author : Elsebeth Gynther
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780806966489
Author : Rachel Braun
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 2016-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781483585000
Embroidery and Sacred Text introduces nineteen new designs in Judaic and Biblical embroidery, in stunning photographs of Rachel Braun's original and colorful needlework. Erudite and insightful commentary accompanying each piece adds a spiritual dimension for appreciating the designs. In addition, Rachel shares forty embroidery motifs for fellow needle artists to incorporate in their own work, along with ten new embroidery alphabets for Hebrew and English lettering. A chapter explaining the mathematical considerations in embroidery design provides clear, accessible explanations of how geometric and algebraic factors underlie the shape of the embroidery patterns.