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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.
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 ...
Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors was an exhibition presented by the Jewish Museum in New York City from April 27 to June 12 in 1966. The show was a survey of recent work in sculpture by artists from the Northeast United States, California and Great Britain that shared general characteristics of scale, simplified ...
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (formerly the Judah L. Magnes Museum) is an extensive collection of Jewish history, art, and culture at the University of California, Berkeley. The Magnes Collection comprises more than 30,000 Jewish artifacts and manuscripts, the third largest collection of its kind in the United States. [ 4 ]
A catalogue, handbook and conclusion were published to accompany the exhibition, edited by Konrad Schilling, the director of the project. Of the 20 chapters in the handbook, most are devoted to a historical overview of the Jewish communities in the Rhineland, with some chapters dealing with specific topics, such as the Jewish religious year, Jewish welfare, the influence of the Hebrew Bible on ...
After igniting controversy over its portrayal of Hollywood's Jewish pioneers, an exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will be changed, the museum announced Monday.
The Old Synagogue was opened as a museum on 27 October 2009. [3] The museum permanently houses the Erfurt Treasure, a hoard of 3141 silver coins, weighing 24 kilograms (53 lb), and over 700 pieces of goldsmiths' work and jewellery that is thought to have belonged to Jews who hid them at the time of the Erfurt massacre in 1349. [4]
The Academy Museum's exhibition 'Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital' centers on Jewish filmmakers who created the studio system.