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JHE Photo Essay: International Women’s Day 2023

The Zodiac sign for Deli (Aquarius), for the month of Shevat, in the Zodiac by the painter Lele Luzzati on the ceiling of the the Jewish library/archives in Rome

Today, March 8, is marked around the world as International Women’s Day. In past years, we have marked the day with photo essays showing how women have been represented in Jewish art (click HERE for 2019 and HERE for 2018) or highlighting the physical place and places of women — images of the women’s sections of synagogues.

This year — like last year — it’s a mix —  images of women such as in depictions of the Hebrew Zodiac or on gravestones, as well as images of the women’s section. (Click HERE to see our November 2022 post about Women’s Sections.)

Women’s gallery under the dome of the neoclassical synagogue in Avignon, France, designed by Jospeh-Auguste Joffroy and built in the 1840s to replace an earlier synagogue destroyed by fire in 1845
Sculpted portrait on the gravestone of Anna S. Goldental, 1897. Iasi, Romania
View from the women’s gallery, the monumental Zion Synagogue in Oradea, Romania, built in 1878 and designed by Dávid Busch, the city’s chief architect
Grave of Evi Bock; Neolog Jewish cemetery, Oradea, Romania
Looking up at the women’s gallery in the synagogue in Pisa, Italy. .
A gravestone in the Kozma utca Jewish cemetery bears a portrait of the deceased and her clearly beloved dog
Women’s gallery, Biker Cholim synagogue, Bardejov, Slovakia
In Gura Humoruliu, Romania, the gravestone of Liva bas Shimon bears the carving of hands blessing the candles

Plaque in the former synagogue in Lostice, Czech Republic, honouring Fanny Neuda, who wrote the first Jewish prayer book for women, by a woman and who lived in the town
Jewish cemetery, Lviv; a sculpted portrait
Women’s galleries in the synagogue in Goteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden
On women’s graves in the Jewish cemetery in Radauti, Romania, women’s hands bless candles. (The small, reddish colored matzevah in the center marks the grave of the great-great grandmother of JHE’s Ruth Ellen Gruber)
A woman’s hand holding a bunch of flowers signifies the Zodiac sign Besulah (Virgo) for the Hebrew month of Elul, in the replica of the painted ceiling of the Gwozdziec synagogue in Polin museum, Warsaw

 

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