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The museum's permanent collection was assembled from three main sources. The first is the Musée d’art juif de Paris, whose collection was given to the mahJ. It consisted mainly of European religious objects, graphic works by Russian and German Jewish artists and artists from the School of Paris, and architectural models of European synagogues destroyed by the Nazis.
Today's Jewish population in the St. Louis area exceeds 60,000 in a metropolitan population of about 3,000,000 people. [6] St. Louis County, MO holds nearly all of Missouri's Jewish community. 7% of St. Louis County's population is Jewish. Synagogues and community organizations including The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute are active in St. Louis.
The Jewish Museum was founded at the library in 1904 through a gift from Sulzberger of over 400 pieces of Jewish ceremonial art, and it would stay at the seminary for more than four decades. [4] Alexander Marx served as its librarian from 1903 to 1953. On his arrival the library contained 5,000 and three manuscripts; under his direction it ...
The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) is a non-collecting museum at 736 Mission Street at Yerba Buena Lane in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The museum, which was founded in 1984, is located in the historic Jessie Street Substation, which was gutted and its interior redesigned by Daniel Libeskind , along ...
St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame: Southwest Garden: Sports: Soccer history from the St. Louis area, currently closed St. Louis Union Station Memories Museum: Downtown West: Railroad: History of the historic railroad station and rail travel in the U.S. St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum: Downtown: Sports: St. Louis Science Center: Forest Park ...
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The St. Louis Holocaust Museum & Learning Center was founded in 1995, publicly opening on May 1, 1995. [2] It operated as a department of Jewish Federation of St. Louis. [3] [4] The museum's opening was dedicated to Gloria M. Goldstein, the wife of museum benefactor Samuel Goldstein. [2] [5] Samuel Goldstein would die five years later at the ...
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