Purchase prof wins book award
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Purchase College Art and Design Professor Murray Zimiles has won the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in Visual Arts for his book “Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel.”
Zimiles will receive the award at the 57th Annual National Jewish Book Awards ceremony on March 4 at the Center for Jewish History in New York City.
The National Jewish Book Awards program began in 1948 and is the longest running North American awards program in the field of Jewish literature. Among the past notable literary winners are Howard Fast, Chaim Grade, Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, I.B. Singer, and Elie Wiesel.
Murray Zimiles is an artist and Kempner Distinguished Professor at Purchase, where he has taught drawing and printmaking in the School of Art and Design since 1977, says a release from Purchase.
Zimiles has researched and documented the story of Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses for more than 20 years, and curated an exhibition of the same name currently on view at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. It is the first major study of an important aspect of the Jewish contribution to American folk art.
The exhibition Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses will travel to the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. from May 24 to September 1.
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