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• W1536844519 abstract "The Challenge of Implementing Reconstructionism:Art, Ideology, and the Society for the Advancement of Judaism's Sanctuary Mural Deborah Waxman (bio) and Joyce Galpern Norden (bio) In May 1935, a large-scale, three-paneled mural was unveiled in the sanctuary of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism (SAJ), a synagogue on Manhattan's Upper West Side established more than a decade earlier by Mordecai M. Kaplan, the founding thinker of the Reconstructionist movement in American Judaism, and his followers. Painted by an art student who was directly influenced by Mexican artist Diego Rivera, the mural included more than fifty images of contemporaneous Palestinian Jews. It was a significant departure from most synagogue art of the period, which avoided figural representation based on the prevailing belief that it was forbidden by the Second Commandment. Titled Elements of Palestine, Old and New, the mural presented a Labor Zionist vision of pioneers, with the central panel celebrating a kibbutz harvest (see Figures 1 and 2). One side panel featured recent Zionist accomplishments (see Figure 3); the second captured the diversity of the inhabitants of prestate Israel (see Figure 4). How did a mural influenced by a radical leftist painter and depicting the program of an avowedly secular political movement come to hang in the prayer space of an American synagogue? The mural was painted by Temima Nimtzowitz, a New York artist and Kaplan disciple who had earlier sat on the scaffolding with Diego Rivera as he painted murals during the 1933 construction of Rockefeller Center.1 She created it expressly for the SAJ, which served as an experimental laboratory for Kaplan's Reconstructionist ideas. Commissioned by Kaplan, the mural was part of his agenda for the radical reimagining of American Jewish life. As this article will argue, however, both the mural's creation and reception reflected the serious challenges Kaplan and his followers faced in inspiring American Jews to embrace their vision. In particular, it highlights the difficulties they experienced in translating an ideological [End Page 195] Click for larger view View full resolution Fig. 1. Details of the horizontal central panel of Elements of Palestine, Old and New, which presented an idealized image of halutzim—both male and female—transforming the land through agricultural work. These scenes were inspired by the agricultural experiments conducted by Jewish settlers in the Jezreel Valley in the 1930s. Images of the mural reproduced with the permission of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism and Daniel Gezari. [End Page 196] Click for larger view View full resolution Fig. 2. [End Page 197] Click for larger view View full resolution Fig. 3. The left side panel of the mural focused on the scientific, technical, and academic achievements of the emerging Jewish society in Palestine. Image reproduced with the permission of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism and Daniel Gezari. [End Page 198] Click for larger view View full resolution Fig. 4. The right side panel of the mural depicted old elements in Palestine, including elderly Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews who engaged in study and subsisted on communal charity, but did not engage in the political work of building up the land as a national home for the Jewish people. Image reproduced with the permission of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism and Daniel Gezari. [End Page 199] platform into a concrete program that would attract large numbers of adherents. Kaplan and his followers had established the SAJ in 1922, after they broke away from the Jewish Center, an Upper West Side Orthodox synagogue where Kaplan had served as founding rabbi.2 Though established to meet the religious needs of its members, the synagogue's name reveals the more expansive aspiration of its founders to serve as a laboratory where Kaplan could work out liturgical and communal innovations that would help to develop his philosophy of Reconstructionism and, in this way, to advance Judaism so that it would thrive in a modern environment.3 Kaplan maintained that eastern European Jewish immigrants to America and their children felt torn between a traditional old world version of Judaism, which was law-based and dependent on a degree of social, religious and cultural exclusivity, and the appeals of..." @default.
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