- Artist/Maker:
- Marcelo Brodsky
- Bio:
- Argentinian, b. 1954
- Title:
- I pray with my feet
- Date:
- 2014
- Medium:
- Triptych of gelatin silver prints
- Dimensions:
- a: 44 1/8 × 55 1/8 in. (112 × 140 cm) b: 44 1/8 × 35 13/16 in. (112 × 91 cm) c: 44 1/8 × 63 in. (112 × 160 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Gifts of Florencia Giordana Braun, Gay Block, Fundación Rozenblum, Paul and Alice Baker, and Bobby Present and Deborah Oseran
- Accession Number:
- 2015-21a-c
Not On View
Left panel:
"On March 25th, 1965 Martin Luther King led thousands of non- violent demonstrators to the steps of the capital in Montgomery, Alabama, after a five days march from Selma, Alabama where local African Americans, the Student non-violent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference had been campaigning for voting rights. The historic march with King's participation, together with other Human Rights Leaders, greatly helped raise awareness of the difficulty faced by black voters in the south and the need for a Voting Right act, passed later that year"
Center panel:
"Abraham Joshua Heschel and Marshall Meyer studying in the library of the Jewish Theological Seminar in Harlem, New York, in the fifties. Photo by Cornell Capa"
Right panel:
"The Jewish Movement for Human Rights was founded in the early eighties by Marshall Meyer, talking in this picture, and Herman Schiller, a journalist, in the right of the image, with a beard. During the dictatorship Marshall Meyer received the families of the victims in his Synagogue Bet El, and he helped them look for their missing relatives. He visited the prisons and helped some Jews to leave Argentina and to SURVIVE. As an American Rabbi, Marshall had some privileges and he could speak openly in the media of what was going on, while the authorities of the Jewish Community institution preferred to stay silent. 30.000 people were victims of the Argentinean dictatorship, 2000 of them jews. When the dictatorship ended Marshall was appointed, the only foreign member of the CONADEP, National Commission of the Disappearances. Here the Movement is celebrating in and event on April 24th, 1984, the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto against the nazis occupation in Poland. It's the 41st anniversary. Marshall Meyer was also a member of Human Rights organization APDH. He founded the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary in Buenos Aires. He published all the works of Abraham Joshua Heschel in Spanish. In late 1984, Meyer returned to the USA to teach in the Jewish University in Los Angeles. Later he moved to New York where he founded a new congregation that became B'nai Jeshurun (BJ) in the upper west side, a very active and socially concerned community, now run by two Argentinean-American rabbis, his disciples."
-Marcelo Brodsky, 2014
"On March 25th, 1965 Martin Luther King led thousands of non- violent demonstrators to the steps of the capital in Montgomery, Alabama, after a five days march from Selma, Alabama where local African Americans, the Student non-violent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference had been campaigning for voting rights. The historic march with King's participation, together with other Human Rights Leaders, greatly helped raise awareness of the difficulty faced by black voters in the south and the need for a Voting Right act, passed later that year"
Center panel:
"Abraham Joshua Heschel and Marshall Meyer studying in the library of the Jewish Theological Seminar in Harlem, New York, in the fifties. Photo by Cornell Capa"
Right panel:
"The Jewish Movement for Human Rights was founded in the early eighties by Marshall Meyer, talking in this picture, and Herman Schiller, a journalist, in the right of the image, with a beard. During the dictatorship Marshall Meyer received the families of the victims in his Synagogue Bet El, and he helped them look for their missing relatives. He visited the prisons and helped some Jews to leave Argentina and to SURVIVE. As an American Rabbi, Marshall had some privileges and he could speak openly in the media of what was going on, while the authorities of the Jewish Community institution preferred to stay silent. 30.000 people were victims of the Argentinean dictatorship, 2000 of them jews. When the dictatorship ended Marshall was appointed, the only foreign member of the CONADEP, National Commission of the Disappearances. Here the Movement is celebrating in and event on April 24th, 1984, the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto against the nazis occupation in Poland. It's the 41st anniversary. Marshall Meyer was also a member of Human Rights organization APDH. He founded the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary in Buenos Aires. He published all the works of Abraham Joshua Heschel in Spanish. In late 1984, Meyer returned to the USA to teach in the Jewish University in Los Angeles. Later he moved to New York where he founded a new congregation that became B'nai Jeshurun (BJ) in the upper west side, a very active and socially concerned community, now run by two Argentinean-American rabbis, his disciples."
-Marcelo Brodsky, 2014
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.