tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887665407196746305.post5846057778794660350..comments2023-06-07T05:19:13.485-04:00Comments on FREE TO BE - the Goddess in Me: YOSHKA - R.I.P.MeowGoddesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227944901156023358noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887665407196746305.post-1933203441586081952011-01-15T23:48:00.214-05:002011-01-15T23:48:00.214-05:00B"H
This past week, on Monday, I went to a Go...B"H<br />This past week, on Monday, I went to a Goodwill store to purchase small boots for some children I know. Walking into the store, two paintings caught my eye. There was an elusiveness and light to them, each different as one is from Jerusalem, the other from Bruges. Both signed by Joseph Ijaky. Not knowing who he was I too googled him. His paintings mesmerized me that before knowing who this man was, I purchased the two oils, brought them home walking through mounds of snow in Manhattan and now they are safely in my home. I have to find a place where to showcase them. I also went on to find out that Joseph Ijaky was involved in a Broadway show called "Light, Lively and Yiddish", or something to that effect. The show folded on Broadway, on the 10th January 1971. I saw his paintings on the 10th January 2011, and I assume that on the 1971 date, Yiddish theater lovers in New York applauded Ijaky. One woman alone in Manhattan, me, stood 40 years later to the date, mesmerized by his paintings. Another round of applause of sort.<br /><br />I am very sad to hear that Joseph Ijaky's final days were so lonely, so horribly painful. His paintings depict someone of tremendous intelligence and sensitivity, with a vision beyond what the rest of us are capable of seeing. A painter who probably came into being in the '70's, he had to carry in his heart and mind a whole palette of experiences stemming from Jewish experience both in Europe and Israel.<br /><br />His paintings have so impacted me that I have kept on googling him until finding this blog. A man who started out his life in Roumania, who loved Israel so, to paint it with such an eye for beauty and symbolism, who traveled the world and must have enjoyed his travails -his painting of Bruge that I now have- must have enabled him to capture the spirit and essence of places.<br /><br />A family member remembers his last days, another person in Miami his kindness and dedication to sharing what is beautiful and cultivated of this world, and now someone in Manhattan, so in love with his art.<br /><br /><br />He still speaks to us. May his memory be for a blessing, his art legacy shrouding the pain of his final days. CaCoCun@Aol.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887665407196746305.post-73230238355173496562011-01-15T23:47:50.943-05:002011-01-15T23:47:50.943-05:00B"H
This past week, on Monday, I went to a Go...B"H<br />This past week, on Monday, I went to a Goodwill store to purchase small boots for some children I know. Walking into the store, two paintings caught my eye. There was an elusiveness and light to them, each different as one is from Jerusalem, the other from Bruges. Both signed by Joseph Ijaky. Not knowing who he was I too googled him. His paintings mesmerized me that before knowing who this man was, I purchased the two oils, brought them home walking through mounds of snow in Manhattan and now they are safely in my home. I have to find a place where to showcase them. I also went on to find out that Joseph Ijaky was involved in a Broadway show called "Light, Lively and Yiddish", or something to that effect. The show folded on Broadway, on the 10th January 1971. I saw his paintings on the 10th January 2011, and I assume that on the 1971 date, Yiddish theater lovers in New York applauded Ijaky. One woman alone in Manhattan, me, stood 40 years later to the date, mesmerized by his paintings. Another round of applause of sort.<br /><br />I am very sad to hear that Joseph Ijaky's final days were so lonely, so horribly painful. His paintings depict someone of tremendous intelligence and sensitivity, with a vision beyond what the rest of us are capable of seeing. A painter who probably came into being in the '70's, he had to carry in his heart and mind a whole palette of experiences stemming from Jewish experience both in Europe and Israel.<br /><br />His paintings have so impacted me that I have kept on googling him until finding this blog. A man who started out his life in Roumania, who loved Israel so, to paint it with such an eye for beauty and symbolism, who traveled the world and must have enjoyed his travails -his painting of Bruge that I now have- must have enabled him to capture the spirit and essence of places.<br /><br />A family member remembers his last days, another person in Miami his kindness and dedication to sharing what is beautiful and cultivated of this world, and now someone in Manhattan, so in love with his art.<br /><br /><br />He still speaks to us. May his memory be for a blessing, his art legacy shrouding the pain of his final days. CaCoCun@Aol.comEsthernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887665407196746305.post-13057011136135262622010-05-21T18:10:13.254-04:002010-05-21T18:10:13.254-04:00I live in Miami, but I grew up in Toronto and I on...I live in Miami, but I grew up in Toronto and I once knew a man by the name of Joseph Ijaky.<br />From when I was only a young child of only 3-4 years and as I grew up, he was sort of a mentor to me.<br />He would by me fancy paintbrush sets and teach me in the hopes that I would paint. He took me to see the symphony - maybe to help me be cultured.<br />I'm not sure it worked, but I always remember him fondly. His love and care and patience, his art of the holy land and of fairs and of weeping clowns.<br />So he came to mind today after all these years and I decided to "google" him and found this.<br />I'm sorry for your loss and for how he went in the end. It shouldn't have been that way. But you are right that now he is free.<br /><br />YYossefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00066772235978902724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887665407196746305.post-36545052300085289152009-01-25T21:50:00.000-05:002009-01-25T21:50:00.000-05:00ah, honey.....I'm so sorry about your Grandfather....ah, honey.....<BR/>I'm so sorry about your Grandfather......<BR/>love and light to you, my special friend...<BR/>goddess blissthe glitzy gypsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14944166942520762656noreply@blogger.com