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Dressed for Eternity: Jewish Shrouds through the Ages An Exhibition from the Collections of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Dressed for Eternity surveys the traditional use of burial shrouds – garments that mirror attitudes to death, but also…
Munich Displaced The exhibition project “Munich Displaced” presents a variety of experiences in the immediate post-war period in Munich. For the first time, the focus is on the heterogeneous group of Displaced Persons (DPs), i.e. all those people…
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A group of Torah pointers in the Jewish Museum in Prague differs in one small detail from all the others – the reading end is shaped as a left hand. To find out more, visit the museum’s new…
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JMP received a momentous gift of six large-scale canvases by American artist Cleve Gray (1918-2004). The paintings are part of an extensive series In Prague inspired by artist’s visit to the Old Jewish Cemetery in 1984….
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The exhibition features finds from abandoned synagogue attics and offers a glimpse into the spiritual and material culture of vanished Jewish communities of the Czech lands….
During the construction of a parking lot, workers discovered what archaeologists now confirm is another finding related to the town’s Jewish past. This time, in the vicinity of the Great Synagogue Memorial Park in Oświęcim, next to the…
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The Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo and the Museo Nazionale dell’Ebraismo italiano e della Shoah-MEIS present the REMEMBR-HOUSE project, funded by the European Union within the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Value…
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The exhibition Case di vita, curated by Andrea Morpurgo and Amedeo Spagnoletto, offers an innovative in-depth approach focussing on the architecture, rituals, and the roles played by both synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish Community. The exhibition…
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The exhibition and catalogue “Artist and Epoch” reflect the years of the first Jewish painter in Georgia Shalom Koboshvili’s life (1876-1941) and includes about 150 exhibits from the Jewish collections of GNM (paintings of Sh. Koboshvili and D….
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The Shoah Memorial Frankfurt commemorates more than 12,000 persons who were deported and murdered by the Nazis because they were Jewish by making their biographies publicly accessible. On this website, the biographies of the murder victims are made…
The Jewish Museum of Switzerland is pleased to announce that it published an important part of its collection online, bringing to an end a one-year digitization project. 825 objects can be viewed if you click here The objects…
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The new issue of the Judaica Bohemiae journal (Vol. 57/2022, 2) presents a fascinating study by Iveta Cermanova exploring the changes in Jewish burial practices that took place as a result of burial reforms introduced in the Bohemian…