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Ilya Schor

Etching by a friend of my parents, last name Wermus, Polish artist, killed in Russia c. 1938

June 6, 2011

A Remembrance: Sarah Wells (June 6, 1950-June 6, 1998)

This post is inspired by two aspects of the life of the artist. First, friendships are very important to artists, perhaps because the nature of being an artist often includes necessary aloneness in the making, the thinking, or the ideological position, within an atmosphere of bracing but sometimes corrosive competitiveness so that it is essential [...]

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MIra Schor, The Fourth Floor, small red notebook, 5 ¾” x 8 ¼”, 2010

April 24, 2011

Orbis Mundi

Hello. A Year of Positive Thinking has been on hiatus since late February while I moved out of the loft where I lived and worked for 33 years into the apartment where I grew up. All moves are overwhelming endeavors and often fraught. The circumstances of this move had particularly infuriating aspects contributing to a [...]

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Resia Schor, Mezuzah, 1985, silver, c.5"x4"x1"

December 5, 2010

“I Love You With All My Hearth”

Today, December 5, 2010, would have been my mother Resia Schor’s 100th birthday. This is not just a nostalgic realization looking back at a deep past, as it was for me in 2004 which was my father Ilya Schor‘s centennial: he had died in 1961 so forty-three years separated his death from his centennial. My [...]

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Ilya Schor, Torah Crown, detail: The Sacrifice of Isaac, pierced and engraved silver, c.mid-1950s, c. 12 inches high. To my knowledge this Torah Crown was destroyed in a synagogue fire in the 1950s.

June 18, 2010

For Father’s Day: Ilya Schor (1904-1961)

My father Ilya Schor was an artist. He is best known for his work in Judaica including Torah Crowns, Candelabras, and Mezuzahs, for his jewelry, and for his illustrations of treasured texts of Jewish religious philosophy and folk literature by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Sholem Aleichem. In relation to the history of modernism, my [...]

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