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Gap analysis

 * What is the title of the article in which you identified a gap. If no article exists at all, what should the title be?

Jewish Feminist Art
 * Document the gap you found, describe how you identified it, and analyze its impact on knowledge.

Upon reflecting on this class and our discussion of feminist art, I wondered how my identity as a Jewish woman ties into this subject. I began with researching Judaism in context with art and found that there was not a page on wikipedia for Jewish Feminist Art. However, I  discovered many artists who identified with being both feminist and jewish and claimed their work as Jewish Feminist Art. I found that a couple of the predominant Jewish Feminist artists had their own pages on Wikipedia but there was no common page dedicated to this sector of Feminist Art. With this knowledge, I decided that this subject was prominent enough to deserve its on entry. I am glad that I could find a subject to research that interests me because of my personal ties to Judaism. Another reason this gap deserves a dedicated page is because of the underrepresentation of not only female artist but also the jewish population in many spheres of interest. Also, what is interesting about this subject is the specific intersectionality of being a Jewish woman what that means within the jewish community and on a larger scale. I think that the jewish faith has an interesting relationship with gender and power. This is especially so when examining the different denominations of Judaism and how their views on women and power relations differ. I am also interested in exploring this section of feminist art because we haven’t spent much time in this class discussing how religion interacts with feminist art. I want to not only define what Jewish Feminist Art is but also discuss the artists who contribute to this sector of art.
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Jewish Feminist art is a sector of the Feminist Art Movement that incorporates the subjects found in the feminist movement along with themes unique to the Jewish community. The familiar themes found in the feminist art movement such as questioning patriarchal power structures, gender oppression and intersectionality are all found in the Jewish Feminist Art Movement. The movement also specifically incorporates themes of questioning women's roles in religious ceremony, marginality of women in Jewish law, and traditional customs women are subjected to. The movement also involves wider Jewish politics that incorporate the geopolitics of Israel and the global Jewish communities connection to a nation state. Artists who identify their work within this movement combine the critical feminist perspective with aspects of Jewish culture. Through the action of art they reconstruct and challenge the meaning and traditions of Judaism.

Artists

Predominant artists who identify with this movement include Helene Aylon, Mierle Laderman-Ukeles, Andi Arnovitz and Jacqueline Nicholls. The majority of these artists identify and reside in either the United States, Europe or Israel. Helène Aylon is an American artist who created an in-depth collection entitled the G-d Project. The project is a feminist commentary of the Torah, which sprung from her rejection of the patriarchal notions that are embedded within the scripture. Her works have been shown in galleries including the Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art and the Jewish Museum. Jacqueline Nicholls is a European artist who explores and disrupts traditional Jewish thought in untraditional ways. She primarily works with the Torah and Jewish texts creating and exploring the Beit Midrash in new ways.
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