This is not a normal essay, more like free writing! Each response should be 175-200 words

Question for article 1: The author raises some interesting questions in relation to Jewish art. He asks: "Does one define Jewish art by a certain style? genre? the fact that is was created by a Jew? for a Jew? or contains an image of a Jew…?…or must it be religious in its subject matter?" (p. 197) He settles on a definition by Richard Cohen: "that which reflects the Jewish experience," and chooses to focus on the Jewish idea of memory and its relation to architecture. He suggests that architecture itself grew out of not simply practical need, but out of a desire to memorialize, to "visualize the invisible," to "spatialize something from past time." What do you think of this?

Question for article 2: Cohen's chapter reminds us that Jewish sacred objects were often kept in the home, or hidden away. For example, in the southwestern United States, immigrant Jews had escaped Spain pretending to be Catholic, and kept up the pretense in their new home. The Torah, written on a scroll, was sometimes hidden inside a Crucifix. 
It was only in the late 1800's that Jewish ceremonial objects began to be collected as art. 

Take a look at The Jewish Museum website, and report back.https://thejewishmuseum.org/