From Our Director and Chairman

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Magazine - Winter 2008 - Spring 2009

Apollo, the leading magazine for fine and decorative arts, in People and Places its December 2008 issue, featured our gold-glass medallions among its top museum acquisitions for 2008 (reported in the Summer–Fall 2007 Israel Museum Magazine).

December 2008

THE ISRAEL MUSEUM, JERUSALEM
Medallion from the Roman Catacombs, 4th century. Gold-glass, diam. 10 cm.
Reacquired in 2008 through the generosity of Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert, New York; The Legacy Heritage Fund, New York; Dr Daniel Rosenberg, Lyon, France, in memory of his wife, Jacqueline; and anonymous Friends of the Israel Museum This is one of the earliest known depictions of Jewish symbols from the second Temple made outside the land of Israel. Such medallions were used in catacombs in Rome as tomb markers. Of the hundreds that survive, fewer than 20 feature Jewish symbols. It has been reacquired by the museum after having been restituted to the heirs of the Dzialynska collection at Goluchow Castle in Poland.

People and Places

Toby at the Model: celebrity character Toby visited the IM in
January 2009, accompanied by his creator, award-winning L.A.
artist, film director, and animator Gary Baseman

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Somewhere over the rainbow…

Van Gogh’s Grain Harvest in Provence, our loan to the Kunstmuseum, Basel, was used as the packaging image
for Basler Laeckerli, the traditional cookie of the Swiss
Laeckerlihuus company

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