#annie albers

Matzah cover made by Annie Albers

“Every Passover when the Cohens set their table for the traditional Seder meal, they took out something reserved for their table alone—a matzah cover woven for them by experimental textile artist Anni Albers. ‘It sat on the table next to my father, or my mother after he died,’ says Tamar Cohen, daughter of Elaine Lustig and Arthur Cohen, who gifted the custom-made ritual object to New York’s Jewish Museum in 2021.″