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Visual Arts
Holy Names for Our Dybbuk
American Jewish artist Julie Weitz embodies the Yiddish folklore figure of the dybbuk to exorcise pain from sites of ancestral trauma.
Working across performance, film, installation, and photography, Julie Weitz accounts for the wounds and resilience of diasporic culture by creating embodied and collective experiences for repair.