64.6 F
San Diego
Saturday, January 4, 2025
Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Art as Liberation: The Mexican Muralists at the Whitney Museum

0
Vida Americana is an exhilarating, expansive and immensely satisfying exhibition at New York’s Whitney Museum. Like a great and varied feast, this is a show that one must take one’s time to fully appreciate...
Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

New exhibit showcases Jewish migration to Manhattan, evolution of community

0
A new exhibition in the Chelsea area of New York City details the history of German-Jewish migration to Washington Heights and how Jewish immigrants created a community for themselves in the Manhattan neighborhood, amNY reported. “Refuge in...
“Lodz Ghetto Bridge, circa 1940–1943” by Vincent Brauner. Credit: Gift of Elizabeth, Gail, and Sandy Peters in the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial collection.

‘Rendering Witness’ displays risks artists took while the Holocaust raged in Europe

0
Artwork made by eyewitnesses who documented their experiences during and shortly after the Holocaust, often in secret and while risking their lives, are showcased in a new exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living...
“Les Maisons,” 1921 by Chaim Soutine. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Chaim Soutine artwork exhibited for first time in Israel in 50 years

0
Now through March 21, Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod, a kibbutz in northern Israel, is exhibiting the works of Chaim Soutine, one of the leading artists of the 20th century, for the first time...
Falsified Israeli passport, part of “Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann,” January to June 2020. Credit: The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, Mich.

Michigan’s Holocaust museum exhibit reveals secret history behind capture of Adolf Eichmann

0
The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, Mich., has announced its newest special exhibit, “Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann,” which runs Jan. 26 through mid-June. It reveals the secret...

Jews and chocolate: 500 years of sweetness

0
Sephardic Jews who were expelled in the late 15th century  from Portugal and Spain learned about cocoa and the production of chocolate from the indigenous peoples of Central and South America and the Caribbean. Keeping...
Artist Marc Bennett with his mosaic illustrating the history of the Star of David

Traveling Israel exhibit opens in Florida

0
On one side of the seating area on Sunday, Dec. 8, was a documented German cattle car used to transport Jews from Warsaw to their death in Treblinka.  On the opposite side was a...
An exhibit featuring Jewish jewelry from the Islamic world. Credit: Museum for Islamic Art.

Exhibit at Museum for Islamic Art features Jewish jewelers from the Arab world

0
The Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem, with a mission of promoting interfaith dialogue, has opened a “past and present” jewelry exhibit featuring a section that highlights the Jewish amuletic jewelry in the communities of the Islamic world. According to its...
A photograph of Anna Ventura with her four children that she sent to her husband, Luigi, when he was in Paris in 1940. Credit: Yad Vashem.

Love letters of the Shoah: Messages thrown from cattle cars convey final wishes, prayers,...

0
Jews have long been known as the people of the book, but fresh evidence has emerged that they’re also the people of the letter. Of the millions of Jews who were taken to their deaths...
The interior of a Holocaust train boxcar used by Nazi Germany to transport Jews and other victims during World War II. Credit: Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Holocaust train car arrives in New York for Auschwitz exhibit in New York

0
A crane lowered a train car onto tracks on Sunday outside the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York—a boxcar that carried Jews and others to their deaths at Auschwitz and other Nazi death...