The upcoming CJM exhibition "Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid" leans on anthologist Howard Schwartz’s "Leaves from the Garden of Eden: One Hundred Classic Jewish Tales (2009),” a compilation of stories from a vast array of countries and centuries. In their works, the fifteen commissioned artists in this exhibition respond to these folktales' characters, themes, and metaphors, and in doing so, act as modern maggids—storytellers, transmitters of knowledge, secret revealers. Here, artist Laurel Roth Hope reveals what she was drawn to in the folktales.
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