50 Jewish Objects: Artists

As part of the activities of the 50 Jewish Objects project, creative pieces are commissioned for contemporary artists in response to selected artefacts from the John Rylands Library and the research produced by Dr Stefania Silvestri.

Juliet Goodden

Juliet has created a workshop on how to create your own collage. Watch the video here.

Response to Karaite manuscript of a Crimean Tartar translation of the Pentateuch — Juliet Goodden

Response to St. John’s Gospel fragment — Juliet Goodden

Nicola Dale

Be inspired by Nicola to create your own art: watch the video or follow her instructions.

Atar Hadari

Atar has created the Gethsemane suite of poems, focused on the figure of Jesus, inspired by the fragment of the New Testament from the Gospel of John which is part of the 50 Jewish Objects project.

Read the poems or watch and listen to Atar's performance.

Read more about the artistic process of creating the Gethsemane suite in Atar's blog posts.

Leo Mercer

Manchester Poet (and R&T alumnus) Leo Mercer presents 'Scroll', a new sequence of Twitter poems. This series of one-a-day poems was specially commissioned for the Centre for Jewish Studies' 50 Jewish Objects Project, which draws on the collections of Manchester University's John Rylands Library, amongst others. Read the poems or watch the animated performance of the poems below.

Poem 1 Foreword

Poem 2 19:30, Manchester

Poem 3 19:17, Pontypridd

Poem 4 18:54, Keinang

Poem 5 18:53, Calcutta

Poem 6 17:92, Berlin

Poem 7 15:58, Mantua

Poem 8 15:00, Venice

Poem 9 11:90, Cairo

Poem 10 02:00, Oxyrrynchus

Poem 11 10: 22:00, Sinai

Poem 12 Afterword

Kremena Dimitrova

Deconstruct : Reconstruct — Turning a 14C Jewish Manuscript into 21C Comic Strips

The blog by Kremena Dimitrova was commended in the 2020 Social History Society Postgraduate Prize.
Kremena's talk and workshop to create your own comic strip can be watched here.