Magnet: Sampler "If you think you can be a little bit Jewish, you think you can be a little bit pregnant. - Jesse Reichek" by Elaine Reichek

Featured on this magnet is Sampler (Jesse Reichek) by Elaine Reichek, which is included in the Jewish Museum's collection and currently on view. In Reichek's hand-embroidered samplers, she employs the craft of sewing while incorporating terse and sometimes humorous quotations that confront her complex Jewish identity. Reichek imbues this historically female practice with a critical voice that such articles of domesticity traditionally suppressed. On this sampler is the quote "If you think you can be a little bit Jewish, you think you can be a little bit pregnant.  -Jesse Reichek".

About the original:
Elaine Reichek (American, 1943)
Sampler (Jesse Reichek), 1993
Embroidery on Linen; 12-7/16' x 113-11/16"
The Jewish Museum, New York

Magnet
2-/2" square