Many exhibitions curated by the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust are available to travel to museums, community centers, universities, and libraries around the world.
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Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges
Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow tells the story of Jewish professors who fled Nazism and came to America in the 1930s and 1940s, finding teaching positions at historically black colleges and universities. The exhibition explores the encounter between these scholars and their students, and their impact on each other, the Civil Rights Movement, and American society.
The exhibition contains more than 70 artifacts and documents, and more than 20 large-scale images. The visual elements are animated by the voices of scholars and students in films by Pacific Street Films—producers of the award-winning film From Swastika to Jim Crow that aired on PBS, and served as the inspiration for the exhibition.
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This exhibition is traveling to:
National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA
January 15 -June 5, 2013
Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills, MI
August 4--December 1, 2013
Dusable Museum Of African American History, Chicago, IL
January 10-April 6, 2014
Past venues:
William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, Atlanta, GA
June 24-December 9, 2012
Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS
February 14-May 27, 2012
Florida Holocaust Museum St. Petersburg, FL
October 13 , 2011- January 31, 2012
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center Skokie, IL
February 3, 2011 – May 31, 2011
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture Baltimore, MD April 23, 2010 – September 26, 2010
I.P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium Orangeburg, SC
October 23, 2010 – January 3, 2011
Information on hosting this exhibition
Selected installation images
This exhibition was made possible through major funding from the Leon Levy Foundation. Additional support provided by the Helen Bader Foundation; The Lupin Foundation; The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation; public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; the Alpern Family Foundation; and the Charles and Mildred Schnurmacher Foundation.
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Project Mah Jongg
This wildly popular exhibition explores the traditions, history, and meaning of the game of mah jongg in Jewish-American life from the 1920s to today. Project Mah Jongg is available for rental beginning March 2011.
The game of mah jongg is explored in dynamic formats throughout the exhibition, including 20th century popular objects and a visitor-activated soundscape that features clacking tiles, exclamations from games by Jewish-American and Chinese-American players, reminiscences, and vintage music. Large-scale graphics by Isaac Mizrahi, Maira Kalman, Bruce McCall, and Christoph Niemann illustrate mah jongg as ongoing muse for contemporary artists. A game table at the core of the exhibition invites visitors to engage in the continuing tradition.
The exhibition serves as historical treatment of the topic, a placeholder for memory, a generator of whimsy, and a stage set for the game’s continuation. The environment conveys how mah jongg is much more than a game: it is a carrier of fantasy, identity, memory, and meaning.
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This exhibition is traveling to:
William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, Inc., Atlanta, GA
April 28– September 15, 2013
Past venues:
Jewish Museum of Florida, Miami Beach, FL
October 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013
Skirball Cultural Center Los Angeles, CA
May 17, 2012- September 2, 2012
Oregon Jewish Museum Portland, OR
September 21, 2011 – December 31, 2011
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage Beachwood, OH
January 24, 2012- April 22, 2012
Information on hosting this exhibition
Selected installation images
This exhibition is made possible through the generosity of the National Mah Jongg League. Additional support provided by Sylvia Hassenfeld and the 2wice Arts Foundation.
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Fire in My Heart: The Story of Hannah Senesh
Among Israel’s most important heroes is Hannah Senesh, who died by firing squad in 1944 at age 23. This first-ever exhibition tells how this Budapest-born poet, diarist, and author of the hymn Eli, Eli discovered her love for the Land of Israel, volunteered for a mission to rescue downed Allied fliers and Jews from Nazi-occupied Hungary, and became an enduring symbol of courage and determination.
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Information on hosting this exhibition.
This exhibition is traveling to:
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center Skokie, IL
May 12– September 15, 2013
Florida Holocaust Museum St. Petersburg, FL
January-April 2014
This exhibition is made possible by leadership gifts in loving memory of Anne Ratner from her children and grandchildren, and from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Additional support provided by the David Berg Foundation and The Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation, Inc.
We are grateful to the Senesh Family for making the exhibition possible by providing material from their collection. Travel generously sponsored by El Al Israel Airlines.
 
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Scream the Truth at the World—Emanuel Ringelblum and the Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto
Recognizing that events in Europe in the fall of 1939 were unprecedented and that they would require careful documentation, Warsaw historian Emanuel Ringelblum gathered a few dozen individuals to form a group code-named Oyneg Shabbes (Joy of Sabbath). The mission of the writers, historians, rabbis, teachers, and welfare workers that comprised the group was to document Jewish life in Nazi-occupied Poland. The group collected reports on the deportation and murders of Jews, as well as ghetto artifacts, photographs, school essays, and ghetto art between September 1939 and January 1943.
As the Nazis liquidated the Warsaw Ghetto, members of Oyneg Shabbes buried the archive in containers. Less than a handful of the group’s members survived the war, but on September 18, 1946, the first cache was pulled from the ghetto’s rubble. A second cache was found in 1950. The last cache has never been discovered. The Ringelblum Archive is now the most important source on the destruction of Polish Jewry.
High-quality reproductions from the archives of the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw and a short film showing the recovery of the hidden archive make up this exhibition.
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This exhibition is traveling to:
Temple Israel, Great Neck, NY
2013
Past venues:
Institute for Holocaust Education Omaha, NE
January 5, 2011 – February 25, 2011
Information on hosting this exhibition
Selected installation images
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A Young Girl at Ghetto Terezin: 1941-1944
Drawings by Helga Weissová Hosková
In 1941, Helga Weissová was deported from Prague to the Terezin Ghetto with her parents. Her father told her, “Draw what you see,” and Helga began documenting her life in the ghetto. When she and her mother were to be deported to Auschwitz in September 1944, Helga entrusted her drawings to her uncle—who hid them until liberation and took them back to Prague. Helga and her mother survived and returned to Prague after the war.
Photographic reproductions of ten of Helga’s drawings make up this exhibition. Accompanying the drawings are excerpts from Helga’s diary that convey her view of life in the Terezin ghetto.
This exhibition is traveling to:
Temple Israel, Great Neck, NY
2013
Past venues:
Burlington Arts Center, Burlington, VT
May 2010
Institute for Holocaust Education, Omaha, NB
2009
Information on hosting this exhibition
Selected installation images |
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