Mima'amakim: Organization for the Jewish Arts
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Email Address: mimaamakim@gmail.com
Editor/Founder: David Druce
Country: Israel
Type: Organization
Description: Mima’amakim is Hebrew for “from the depths,” the phrase used to introduce Psalm 130, one of the most poignant and eloquent creative statements of hope and yearning for God. Founded in 2001 by students at Yeshiva University as a poetry journal catering to its student population, Mima’amakim quickly opened into the wider Jewish world, incorporating a larger and more diverse definition of “religious experience.” By 2003, the Mima’amakim journal had evolved from a student run poetry journal, to an independent annual incorporating poetry, prose, as well as the visual arts, while the Mima’amakim organization had created an arts blog at mimaamakim.org, and established a reputation for hosting topnotch events and readings. Mima’amakim’s mission is to assert that the artist whose life and vision are informed by prayer, learning and tradition has a creative contribution to make, and that Judaism gains from an encounter with artists who adapt the interpretive storytelling of the midrash, the yearning of the psalmist or the clarion call of the prophets.
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Go to website
Email Address: mimaamakim@gmail.com
Editor/Founder: David Druce
Country: Israel
Type: Organization
Description: Mima’amakim is Hebrew for “from the depths,” the phrase used to introduce Psalm 130, one of the most poignant and eloquent creative statements of hope and yearning for God. Founded in 2001 by students at Yeshiva University as a poetry journal catering to its student population, Mima’amakim quickly opened into the wider Jewish world, incorporating a larger and more diverse definition of “religious experience.” By 2003, the Mima’amakim journal had evolved from a student run poetry journal, to an independent annual incorporating poetry, prose, as well as the visual arts, while the Mima’amakim organization had created an arts blog at mimaamakim.org, and established a reputation for hosting topnotch events and readings. Mima’amakim’s mission is to assert that the artist whose life and vision are informed by prayer, learning and tradition has a creative contribution to make, and that Judaism gains from an encounter with artists who adapt the interpretive storytelling of the midrash, the yearning of the psalmist or the clarion call of the prophets.
(Directory entry)
