Weeks before the pandemic necessitated its temporary closure, Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History filed for bankruptcy in hopes of keeping its doors open.
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New York’s Jewish Museum Staff Push to Unionize
The union would include art handlers, curators, development staff, educators, visitor experience and retail employees, and other administrative staff.
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Looking to the Future of Art Restitution
For many people and organizations,restitution is simply the beginning of a long fight for cultural heritage and the right to remember.
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Dozens of Israeli Artists Ask to Withdraw From Exhibition After a Political Artwork Was Removed
Ramat Gan’s Mayor Carmel Shama-Hacohen called the work “racist towards ultra-orthodox Jews,” which the artist vehemently denies.
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TikToker Pokes Fun at Western Attitudes Towards Non-Western Art
“The Europeans are a simple people, but perhaps in this complex age we could learn something from their simplicity,” Rubin says mockingly as she reverses an attitude that remains embarrassingly prevalent in Western culture.
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Our Wandering, Rootless Nature, Given Shape by a Jewish Tradition
The autumn holiday of Sukkot continues to offer solace and community for new generations.
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The Jewish Immigrant Modernists Who Dreamed a Better Future in Brazil
As Jewish artists fled World War II, some settled in Brazil, where their resilience and desire for renewal shaped their art that looked hopefully to the future.
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Exhibiting the Afterlives of Looted Art
The Jewish Museum delves into “degenerate” art and art made under duress as part of a thought-provoking yet diffuse exhibition.
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The Forgotten Indie Film That Recreated Manhattan’s Old Jewish Enclave
Like many of Silver’s films, the 1975 indie drama about Manhattan’s old Jewish enclave has been unjustly forgotten. But you now have the perfect opportunity to discover it.
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An Artist Excavates Her Family’s Pre-Holocaust Story
Sara Davidmann explores the space between what we can know about one of the darkest moments in human history and what is impossible to recover.
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In Malibu, a Large Hole Is Being Dug to Contain Your Grief
Cara Levine’s “Dig a Hole” is inspired by Shiva, the seven-day period of mourning in Judaism.
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The Three Versions of The Jazz Singer and the Sinister Bargain of Jewish Whiteness
For scholars, weighing the context of the classic film’s use of blackface is a valuable thought exercise. For a Jew, it is an exorcism.