— Polish and Israeli officials announced the future opening of an innovative museum honoring non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust. The museum is slated to open in 2018 in the center of Warsaw under the auspices of the TSKZ cultural association of Polish Jewry and the commemoration group From the…
The Museum at Eldridge Street, located inside a National Historic Landmark 19th century synagogue, has an interesting exhibition coming up next week – and it couldn’t come at a better time. The exhibition, which is being put on in conjuction with the Blavatnik Archive Foundation (“a non-profit foundation dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of primary…
— The Tenement Museum in New York has seen an “unprecedented number” of negative comments by visitors about immigrants. The museum, which holds tours for small groups with the stated mission of enhancing the public’s appreciation for the role immigration plays in shaping American identity, is giving its guides new training to help them deal with…
The battle for Palestinian statehood consumed Yasser Arafat’s life and a new museum in his name puts the nature of that fight front and center – the sub-machine gun on his desk, the AK-47 assault rifle in the corner, the pistol at his side. Twelve years after his death in Paris at the age of…
The factory and housing complex where Oskar Schindler is credited with saving more than 1,000 Jews today lies abandoned, a hulking semi-ruin in the small Czech town of Brnenec, about a two-hour drive from Prague. The Shoah and Oskar Schindler Memorial Endowment Foundation, which own the complex, want to to spend almost $5 million to…
Like most such institutions, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie boasts an extensive permanent exhibition of artifacts from the Shoah, along with recollections of Illinois residents who experienced or witnessed the atrocities in Europe 70 years ago. But that is only part of its mission. The other part is to transform the…
From Berlin to Moscow; London to Vienna; Copenhagen, Denmark, to Budapest, Hungary, and, recently, Warsaw, Poland, the map of Europe is dotted with museums dedicated to the history and culture of Jewish communities past and present. Although the Jewish Museum in Prague dates back to 1906, the majority of Jewish museums now on a Jewish…
A paradox lies at the core of Frederick Kiesler’s legacy. Over a career that spanned half a century, the protean and tireless architect, designer and theoretician actually built precious little. His most famous and, arguably, most radical design, the free-form pod-like “Endless House,” never yielded a satisfactory prototype, despite nearly 40 years of planning; few…
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