Hiddur Mitzva: A Journey Through Jewish Ritual Art

Cosponsored by Hillel at UCLA: https://www.uclahillel.org/

Chaim Seidler-Feller (Shalom Hartman Institute of North America)

A virtual tour of the Seidler-Feller collection of objects of Jewish material culture from Alsace and Iran, from India and Italy and from the US and Israel. Items include an 18th Century embroidered Italian tallit, a Yemenite wedding headdress, ketubot from across the globe and contemporary Israeli silver. The tour will include a reflection on how we came to collect Judaica and the stories that background our acquisitions.