"The Wolloch Haggadah" E-Card

As a friendly reminder, the opening reception for the exhibit The Wolloch Haggadah: Lithographs of a Modern Day Exodus is Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 3, 2012 from 6-8 pm.  Please join us for hors d'oeuvres, wines, and live chamber music. Please feel free to invite your friends through our Facebook event page: Wolloch Haggadah.  The Wolloch Haggadah Lithographs of a Modern Day Exodus   April 3 - June 29, 2012 "Forgetfulness leads to exile, while remembrance is the secret of redemption."               -David Wander The Haggadah is a collected work of blessings, prayers, and excerpts traditionally read on the Passover holiday.  Commissioned by the Wolloch family, The Wolloch Haggadah is a compilation of 36 hand-printed original lithographs signed by the artists, illustrator David Wander and calligrapher Yonah Weinreb. These images, taken out of the traditional book format, link the ancient redemption from Egypt to the Holocaust, and honor memories of those who perished during World War II. The exhibit will be open during Passover and on the day of remembrance of the Holocaust, Yom Ha'Shoa.  The deeply expressive images illustrate the relatively recent calamity of the Holocaust, juxtaposing the original texts of the Haggadah that articulate Israel's prior enslavement.  Previously, The Wolloch Haggadah collection was featured at Duke University and by New York Times. The collection honors the remembrance of past hardships and evokes thoughts of a hopeful and just future. About the Haggadah, Richard McBee describes it as "...a tale of transformations shown through a visual translation of the traditional text.  Just as the bread of affliction becomes the matzah of freedom, so too, in his images, the tattered yellow star, a badge of shame, becomes the Israeli flag of pride.  All of our treasured sons become treasured books.  And just as our imperative to remember our Egyptian bondage and the eventual redemption, so too we must remember the horrors and degradation of the Holocaust and see in the creation of the state of Israel its redemption.   It is therefore entirely fitting that the title page of the Holocaust Haggadah contains this quotation from the Baal Shem Tov: 'Forgetfulness leads to exile, while remembrance is the secret of redemption.'"  Event sponsored by Boston University's Jewish Cultural Endowment and Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston. Opening Reception Tuesday, April 3, 2012 6 - 8 pm    Join us for for hors d'oeuvres, wine, and live chamber music.  Free and open to the public. The Rubin-Frankel Gallery The Florence & Chafetz Hillel House at Boston University  213 Bay State Road |Boston, MA 02215  rubinfrankelgallery@gmail.com 617-353-7634 |www.bu.edu/hillel/gallery Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @rfgallery  About Us The Rubin-Frankel Gallery is located at 213 Bay State Road, on the second floor of the Florence and Chafetz Hillel House at Boston University. A non-profit educational gallery, the Rubin-Frankel features 4-6 fine arts exhibitions every year addressing a wide variety of content that speaks to enriching our community's social, cultural, educational, religious and political lives. The Rubin-Frankel Gallery was built through funding made possible by arts philanthropist Felicia Rubin and is maintained solely through a series of grants and the support of private donors.