Shoshannah Brombacher

About the author/artist: Shoshannah Brombacher is a Dutch artist, author and scholar from Amsterdam (The Netherlands). She holds a PhD in Jewish Studies from Leyden University (The Netherlands) and has lectured in Leyden, Berlin, Jerusalem and New York. She is an ordained maggidah (Jewish spiritual guide and storyteller), the vice-president of the American Guild of Judaic Art, and a member of the Jewish Art Salon. She has curated and participated in many international art exhibitions and...See more

About the author/artist: Shoshannah Brombacher is a Dutch artist, author and scholar from Amsterdam (The Netherlands). She holds a PhD in Jewish Studies from Leyden University (The Netherlands) and has lectured in Leyden, Berlin, Jerusalem and New York. She is an ordained maggidah (Jewish spiritual guide and storyteller), the vice-president of the American Guild of Judaic Art, and a member of the Jewish Art Salon. She has curated and participated in many international art exhibitions and received several awards for her art, which includes work for Occupy Wall Street and Social Justice organizations. Brombacher designed book and CD covers and illustrations for Jason Aronson Publishing, Yitzhak Buxbaum, R. Chaim Dalfin, R. Simchah Raz, R. Berel Wein, Carmelo Zaffora, the composers Meira Warschauer and Ezra Okonsar, and others. She made posters for films, OWS, and the Yiddish Rep theatre. Besides scholarly publications, she is the author of: -Painting the Dybbuk. Between Two Worlds. Ansky's Play seen through an Artist's Lens-The Little Rose on the Mountain-The Golem in Brooklyn: The Golem Exhibition at the Brooklyn Jewish Art gallery at CKI-Pictorial for The Story of My Life. Various Events and Episodes of an Orphan By Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn: Seen through the eyes of an artist-Brombacher Haggadah shel Pesach. The Brombacher Passover Hagadah-For Strangers passing Through (illustrated Chassidic stories) Coming soon (publication postponed due to the pandemic): -Avraham Abulafia's Seven Paths of the Torah on Sicily seen though the lens of an artistBrombacher co-authored and illustrated books with B. Forman: -Under the Chuppah, A Jewish Couple's Guide to Weddings and Meaningful Marriage; - Smokescreen; - Rebbe Nachman's Tales: Stories for Personal Refinement; - with H. Hamburger: I See Only Light; - with R. Schwartz: Holy Eating; - with Y. Buxbaum: Serach; -with R. Seidman: A New Oracle of Kabbalah: Mystical Teachings of the Hebrew Letters: For Insight, Perspective, and Guidance. Illustrations: - Meetings with Remarkable Souls (E. Klein); - Letters of Light (A. L. Raskin); - When the Shouting Began (S. Sher); - TheLight and Fire of the Baal Shem Tov (Y. Buxbaum); - Theophanie (C. Zaffora); - Le Confessioni di Abulafia (C. Zaffora); - On One Foot. The Life of Hillel. (S. Brombacher, D. Zaklikowsky); - Bitachon Amsterdam, Liber Amicorum voor A.M. (Dolf) Aronson (multiple authors, article plus illustrations); - Inspired. Rosh Hashanah Prayer Companion. Ch. Dalfin, S. Brombacher et al. ed. Ch. Witkes): See less