 | AJHS presents:
Jewish Chaplains at War: Unsung Heroes of the Greatest Generation 1941-1945
Of the more than half a million Jewish men and women who served in World War II, 311 were rabbis who volunteered as chaplains in the Army, Navy, Marines, and Army Air Corps. View the on-line exhibition.
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 | LBI presents:
Hanns Wolters: Emigré Impressario: Berlin/Palestine/New York
This exhibition highlights the remarkable legacy in the American entertainment industry Hanns Wolters née Hanns Wollsteiner left behind when he died in 2000.
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 | CJH presents:
Faces of Israel
An exhibition of sixty color photographs of prominent Israelis, including diplomats, Supreme Court justices, professors, artists. The photographs, by Stanley Batkin, express his passionate interest in Israel as well as the art of photography.
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 | YUM presents:
The Max Stern Collection of Judaica
Motivated by his desire to preserve a Jewish heritage devastated by the Holocaust, Max Stern, founder of Hartz Mountain pet products, built a collection of over 400 Judaica items.
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 | LBI presents:
Starting Over: The Experience of German Jews in America, 1830-1945
2005 marked the 50th anniversary of the Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History, a landmark year that coincides with a milestone in American history: the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the first Jews to America.
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 | YIVO presents:
Special Exhibition on the Otto Frank File
An exhibition featuring documents from the Otto Frank file released to the public on February 14, 2007, as well as other material from the YIVO archives pertaining to the Holocaust in the Netherlands is now on display.
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 | YUM presents:
Reuben Kadish's Holocaust Sculpture
Expressionist brutality and raw emotion manifest themselves in the work of Reuben Kadish, a sculptor, draughtsman, painter and printmaker. The son of parents who had immigrated from Kovno in Czarist Russia (now Lithuania), Kadish was brought up in a Yiddish speaking traditional family.
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 | YUM presents:
Picturing Jerusalem: James Graham and Mendel Diness, Photographers
This exhibition of work by James Graham and Mendel John Diness, explores the political and social aspects of the Holy Land under Ottoman rule.
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 | LBI presents:
Widely Scattered, Closely Linked: The Daily Life of Central European Jewry, 1600 to 1948
This exhibit looks at the daily life of Jews across the expanse of Central Europe, from Alsace-Lorraine in the West to the mountains of the Bukovina in the East.
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 | LBI presents:
Erwin Piscator: Political Theater in Exile
This exhibit looks at Piscator’s impact on the development of the modern theater, from his avant-garde productions at the Epic Theater in Weimar Berlin to his innovative contributions to the American stage.
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 | YUM presents:
Chana Cromer: The Story of Joseph: Unveiling the Text
A graduate of the Bezalel Art Institute in Jerusalem, and a Torah student for many years, Jerusalem fiber artist and teacher Chana Cromer has created a series of fabric wall hangings that reflect the text and commentary in the story of Joseph.
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 | YUM presents:
From Darkness to Light: The paintings of Laura Murlender
Between 1976 and 1983, Argentina was under military rule. During this period, Jews were increasingly targeted for kidnapping and torture by the ruling junta. Laura Murlender, a native of Buenos Aires was abducted at the age of nineteen by government forces and placed in solitary confinement.
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 | ASF presents:
The Historic Synagogues of Turkey
The photographs in this exhibition will offer a glimpse into an intriguing world: the synagogues of the largest Jewish community in any Muslim country.
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 | YUM presents:
Kikar Zahav Tahor: A Talent of Pure Gold
The great treasures of medieval manuscripts are distinguished by the miniature worlds they open up to us, a world that New York artist Barbara Wolff has recreated in this exhibition.
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 | YUM presents:
Ezrat Nashim: Installation by Miriam Stern
This site-specific installation addresses how the issues of separateness, prayer and feminism are defined within spiritual communities.
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 | YUM presents:
The Illuminated Torah: Yonah Weinrib
Rabbi Yonah Weinrib is both a Torah scholar and an artist. This amazing manuscript was executed as a private commission.
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 | YUM presents:
Framed in Words: The Art of Mark Podwal
This comprehensive exhibition features over 80 drawings and paintings highlighting Mark Podwal's diverse and extensive career of over thirty years.
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 | LBI presents:
On the Wings of a Song
From its own archives and art collection, the Leo Baeck Institute has put together an exhibit to showcase the countless musicians, composers and patrons who enriched European cultural life throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
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 | YUM presents:
Sukkah/Bus Stop: Aleksandr Razin
This installation connects an American Pop symbol and the holiday of Sukkot, the period during which the Israelites wandered the desert living in huts.
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 | ASF presents:
Cochin Diary: Jewish Life in Southern India
The American Sephardi Federation with Sephardic House announces the opening of its latest exhibit, Cochin Diary: Jewish Life in Southern India, featuring color photographs and historic objects that capture the spirit of the centuries-old community of Cochin in the Kerala region of southern India.
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 | ASF presents:
Remembering Old Bukhara
In the mid-1980's, photographer Joan Roth traveled to Bukhara, the famous city along the Silk Road, and documented the people, traditions, and daily life of the Jewish community there.
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 | YUM presents:
Encompassing Sukkot Memories: Jane Trigere
An assemblage of memorabilia having to do with the holiday of Sukkot in the tradition of Joseph Cornell, together with anecdotes collected by the artist.
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 | YUM presents:
At the Altar of her Memories: A memorial to a lost family
An installation of hand-made puppets by Bracha Ghilai, who, at the age of seventeen, following liberation from Bergen-Belsen, came to Israel to start her life over, established a puppet theatre as a part of her healing process.
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 | YUM presents:
Vincent Capraro's Vision
Moved by world events, Vincent Capraro completed a Holocaust sketchbook in 1961, which was exhibited at the Knesset in 1992 and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. In a style reminiscent of both Rembrandt and Goya, these drawings are universal as they evoke the suffering of humanity throughout the ages.
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 | AJHS presents:
American Jewish Lives: 1654 to the Present
How to be both Jewish and American? For 350 years, American Jews have been answering this question in diverse, resourceful and highly individual ways.
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 | YUM presents:
Exploring the North Atlantic: Traders, Scholars and Vikings
This exhibit features a two-and-a-half-foot-long model of a Viking trading ship (knorr), an interactive market in the Irish trading town of Limerick, and a replica of a scholar’s study in Troyes, France.
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 | YUM presents:
Rejoicing in Tsfat and Meron: Capturing the Fervor: Photography by Win Robins
Win Robins photo documentation of the joyous celebrations in the ancient mystical town, where the melodies of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach still resound.
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 | YUM presents:
Poets' Portraits: Lines For My Image: Drawings and Sculpture by Zvi Lachman, Tel-Aviv
Lachman's portraits combine visual impressions from observation, photographs, and memory, and juxtapose the portraits with the poems.
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 | YIVO presents:
The Society for the Protection of Jewish Health: Fighting for a Healthy New Generation
OZE - Obshchestwo Zdravookhraneniya Yevreyev, "The Society for the Protection of Jewish Health," was established during the Czarist period in 1912 with headquarters in St. Petersburg. OZE's aim was the prevention, early detection, and cure of diseases among Jewish people.
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 | YUM presents:
From New York to Jerusalem: A Jewish Artist's Journey Home (Photo-Realist Max Ferguson)
A spiritual and geographic journey, this exhibition traces the artist’s roots back to his great great grandparents in Eastern Europe.
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 | YUM presents:
The Holocaust in the Paintings of Valentin Lustig
A postwar child of East European Holocaust survivors, Lustig has created symbolic scenarios of this traumatic period of history. Using his fertile imagination, the artist has developed his own iconography consisting of people, animals, landscapes, still-lifes, and architecture in a Surrealist style.
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 | YUM presents:
Mehitzah: Seen by Women: A Photographic Essay by Myriam Tangi, Paris, France
Myriam Tangi explores the distance and separation between men and women in the Jewish tradition, specifically in synagogues and places of prayer.
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 | ASF presents:
Silenced Sacred Spaces: Selected Photographs of Syrian Synagogues
Jews have dwelled and flourished in Syria for thousands of years. Evidence of a thriving ancient Jewish community may be detected as early as the first century of the Common Era (CE). The cultural and religious continuum of Jews in Syria is reflected through the presence of Syrian Synagogues dating from as early as the 3rd century C.E.
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 | YUM presents:
And I Still See Their Faces: The Vanished World of Polish Jews
This exhibition of approximately 450 large-scale photographs provides a haunting and intimate view of the everyday activities of Polish Jews prior to the 1939 Nazi invasion.
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 | YUM presents:
Feminine Principals: Works in Iron, Fiber and Glass
This exhibition illustrates how the artists’ works reflect the inherent qualities of their chosen media (the permanence and rigidity of iron; the fragility and luminescence of glass; the richness and “femininity” of textiles) and, simultaneously, how these works reflect the commonalities of the artists’ shared experiences as women and Jews.
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 | LBI presents:
"AUKTION 392" Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf
The exhibit at Leo Baeck Institute, curated through Concordia University in Montreal where Max Stern settled after the war, recreates many of the works in "Auktion 392" that are now being sought for purposes of restitution.
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 | YIVO presents:
'Give Me Your Children': Voices from the Lodz Ghetto at the USHMM, Washington DC
The German invasion of Poland in September 1939 set off a series of events that forever altered the Jewish community of Lodz, Poland, one of the largest in Europe. This exhibition presents the voices of the Jewish children of Lodz, preserved in artifacts from collections around the world.
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 | LBI presents:
Recent Acquisitions
Recent Acquisitions will showcase materials that have found a new home at the LBI, thanks to the generosity of donors whose gifts have enhanced the rich mosaic that is German-Jewish culture.
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 | YUM presents:
Images of Resistance: Past and Present
This documentary exhibition presents large-scale digital
photographs, wartime images, contemporary portraits and personal testimonies of 27 courageous men and women (the Resisters) who, more than 60 years ago, actively resisted Nazi occupation in their small country, Belgium.
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 | YUM presents:
A Perfect Fit: the Garment Industry and American Jewry 1860-1960
This groundbreaking exhibition traces the early thread of 19th century Jewish immigrants seeking success in America interlaced with one hundred years of fashion from 1860-1960.
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 | AJHS presents:
'Cradled in Judea': Jewish Orphanages in New York, 1860-1960
From their beginnings, Jewish orphanages were populated by a variety of “orphans.” The progeny of poverty and disease, few of these children were full orphans. Others had parents who relinquished them because life in an orphanage seemed better than the one they could provide.
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 | YUM presents:
Resistance and Memory in Belgium: 1940-1945
A Documentary Installation by Anne Griffin with Contemporary Photographs by Jean-Marc Gourdon
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 | ASF presents:
Baghdad Revisited: Iraqi Jewish Art & Artifacts
Ritual objects, memorabilia, photographs and documents depicting the Iraqi Jewish heritage as it is preserved and perpetuated in the Diaspora.
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 | YUM presents:
Alfred Dreyfus: The Fight for Justice
This exhibition revisits the 1894 trial of Alfred Dreyfus and its aftermath in a completely new way: through Dreyfus' personal effects.
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 | AJHS presents:
The Photographic Study of the Lower East Side, 1934
In 1929, the City of New York made plans to redevelop the Lower East Side, threatening to dissolve the vibrant Jewish community that had existed there since the 1880s. Knowing this, J.B. Lightman set out with his camera to document the neighborhood before it disappeared.
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 | YIVO presents:
Spinoza in the Yiddish Mind
The philosopher Baruch Spinoza, long ignored by Jews, was rediscovered in mid-19th century by Yiddish-speaking Jewry, and became a symbol of Jewish secularism.
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 | YUM presents:
Ita B'Ita: Ita Aber in Her Time: 60 Years of Creativity and Innovation by Ita Aber
This retrospective exhibition shows us 60 years of one artist's oeuvre in fiber, painting, sculpture, appliqu�, embroidery, and printing, most inspired by ancient Jewish art from a contemporary feminist and humanitarian vantage point.
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 | CJH presents:
Blavatnik Archive: Words and Memories of the Russian Front
The Blavatnik Archive and the Center for Jewish History present this exhibit which commemorates the tremendous efforts of Russian Jewish soldiers from the Red Army, whose valor in 1941-1945 contributed to the end of the Great Patriotic War and WWII.
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