Word: bezalel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nightmare of man being destroyed by a creature of his own making has always been with us. The first robot in literature was the Golem, a clay man made by the High Rabbi Lev Ben Bezalel of Prague in the 16th century. Animated by a slip of paper bearing the name of God, it murdered the Rabbi when he made it work on the Sabbath. The Biblical analog is the Tower of Babel, the presumptuous construction that called down God's wrath on man. But the Golem and the Tower of Babel are myths. Computers are real...
...temples in the state, the nearer one being almost 300 miles away. Of Idaho's population (692,000), only 500, or .07%, are Jews." The father, on the other hand, lives in northern New Jersey, where "temples, Hebrew schools and extrareligious facilities abound." Citing C. Bezalel Sherman's The Jew Within American Society, Judge Consodine, himself a Catholic, decided that the children's Idaho environment might well undermine their faith...
Hugging the hillside like an Arab village is the museum's main silhouette: the 28 interconnected, boxy pavilions that house the Bezalel National Art Museum and the Samuel Bronfman Archaeological and Biblical Museum. Designed by Israeli Architects Alfred Mansfeld and Dora Gad, the pavilions are soft to the feet, with taupe carpeting over cork, and harsh on the eyes, with unshaded clerestories admitting a blaze of light. In the Bezalel* the exhibition is mostly on loan from ten countries, mainly illustrates Old Testament themes, and spans art history from the quattrocento to Vasarely's op. Where the Bezalel...
...Showman Billy Rose is still the oldtime dynamite. Traveling to Jerusalem for the seventh time in three years, he was overseeing construction of his greatest philanthropical production: a $500,000 garden to display his $1,000,000 collection of statuary as part of Israel's Bezalel National Museum. "The Guggenheim is nothing compared to what my museum is going to be," boasted Billy. And why was he giving away his collection? "After I'm gone I don't want all this stuff bought at auction by some thin-lipped banker for his home in Peekskill. Not that...
...Jerusalem Museum of Art is quite a dream in itself. Now being built on top of a sawed-off hill near the Israeli Knesset, it will house not onlv the old Bezalel National Museum, which is the largest general museum in the Middle East, but also the Samuel Bronfman Archaeology Museum, a Shrine of the Book (to 'hold the Dead Sea Scrolls), and the Billy Rose Art Garden, designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi. The Art Garden already has Billy's own private collection, which Israel finally accepted as a gift last year after deciding that it would...