A virtual stroll around Jewish Cork, with music, songs, poems, and history. Stories are told by Cork Jewish residents, past and present. Cork’s Jewish community was at its most vibrant in the early 1900s. This project is part of a current effort to keep Cork Jewish past alive as part of Cork’s Jewish present. The virtual walk includes a visit to the synagogue, the mikveh, the bridges connected with the community, the area where many Jews lived when they first arrived in Cork (nicknamed ‘Jewtown’ by locals), Shalom Park and the Evening Echo installation, and the site of a very old cemetery and a very new music session.
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Sydney Jewish Museum
The Sydney Jewish Museum gives history a voice through collecting and preserving historic objects, commemorating and educating, with a mission to challenge visitors’ perceptions of morality, social justice, democracy and human rights. The Sydney Jewish Museum challenges perceptions of democracy, morality, social justice and human rights and places the Holocaust in an historical and contemporary context.
The Synagogues of India
Learn about the intriguing history, culture and customs of the Jewish communities of Mumbai, Cochin, Kolkata and Delhi. Delve into 2,000 years of Jewish life in the world’s most populous democracy.
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History
Welcome to The Digital Weitzman! Explore our virtual tours and online exhibitions, examine artifacts and stories, attend fun and inspiring events, access family activities, and take a deep dive into more than 365 years of American Jewish history all from the comfort of your home. We are proud to be a Best of Philly 2020 winner for “Best Cultural Experience on Your Phone.”
The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of Jews in America. Its purpose is to connect Jews more closely to their heritage and to inspire in people of all backgrounds a greater appreciation for the diversity of the American Jewish experience and the freedoms to which Americans aspire.
Established in 1976, and situated on Philadelphia’s Independence Mall, the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is the only museum in the nation dedicated exclusively to exploring and interpreting the American Jewish experience. The Museum was originally founded by the members of historic Congregation Mikveh Israel, which was established in 1740 and known as the “Synagogue of the American Revolution”.
The Museum has long been a vital component in the cultural life of Philadelphia. During the course of its history, a broad regional audience have been drawn to the Museum’s public programs, while exploring American Jewish identity through lectures, panel discussions, authors’ talks, films, children’s activities, theater, and music.
The Museum has displayed more than a hundred exhibitions in its first three decades-plus of existence. As the repository of the largest collection of Jewish Americana in the world, with more than 30,000 objects, the Museum has developed extensive institutional experience in preservation, conservation and collections management supporting the fulfillment of its mission to preserve the material culture of American Jews.
Melbourne Holocaust Museum
The Melbourne Holocaust Museum is Australia’s largest institution solely dedicated to Holocaust education, research and remembrance. We exist to keep the voices of Holocaust survivors alive through education and memorialisation, to combat antisemitism, racism and prejudice.
Founded by Holocaust survivors in 1984, we have educated more than 700,000 students and currently house more than 1,500 Survivor testimonies and approximately 20,000 artefacts.
Käthe Kollwitz Museum
Käthe Kollwitz was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class.
Käthe Kollwitz spent the last months of her life at the Rüdenhof in Moritzburg near Dresden. There she died on April 22, 1945. The building was reconstructed on the initiative of the Kreissparkasse Köln, the savings bank that operates the Käthe Kollwitz Museum, under monument preservation aspects. The German Foundation for Monument Protection, the Free State of Saxony and the municipality of Moritzburg were involved. Since 1995 the memorial has been open to the public as the Käthe Kollwitz House.
Jewish Museum of Greece
With substantial financial support from the Greek Ministry of Culture and the Associations of its Friends, the old building was renovated and, in late 1997, twenty years after it first opened its doors to the public, the Museum moved to 39 Nikis street, its new address in the centre of Athens.
On March 10th, 1998, the new building of the JMG was inaugurated and a new area begun for the Museum. In the following years it developed significantly and extended all its activities, and especially the educational ones. Also, it improved its visitors services and conducted thorough research efforts, the results of which were communicated through several temporary exhibitions and special publications. Contact and communication with the public and international relations and activities of the JMG, signal an extensive social and scientific information and influence exchange.
Jewish Tour of the Sistine Chapel
From the comfort of your home you can join Andrea on a Virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel. Andrea will tell you all about the history, the art and the hidden messages that they include. You will be educated on the meaning of Michelangelo’s art and how this relates to the state of Christianity in the 1500s and it’s relationship with Judaism. Andrea will fascinate you on the complexities of the Papacy at that time and a bit before the events of Martin Luther. The tours will be presented online with a mix of presentation, images & video. But this is not just a video to watch, you will get a chance to ask Andrea questions to learn more about the subject and answer those questions which interest you most.
The Sarajevo Haggadah
The Sarajevo Haggadah is one of the most famous Jewish books in the world. A religious and cultural icon, its history is replete with mystery and intrigue. Its survival is nothing short of remarkable—from the expulsion of Spanish Jews in the Inquisition, resurfacing in Italy in 1609 and later Sarajevo, courageously saved from a Nazi general and then hidden, and surviving 1990’s Serb bombardment. Learn how it has become a symbol of interreligious respect and cooperation. Presented by Les Bergen, trustee of the Capital Jewish Museum and collector of Haggadot.
Jewish Museum of Australia
The Jewish Museum of Australia was founded in 1977 by a group of dedicated volunteers led by Rabbi Ronald Lubofsky. During our first years of existence, this collective staged exhibitions at the Myer Gallery and Tramways Board building, acquired objects for a collection, and searched for a permanent home.
In 1982, one of our founding members – June Helmer – invited her brother, the Governor-General Sir Zelman Cowen, to be our Patron ahead of the opening of our temporary premises in the disused classrooms of the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation in South Yarra. Over the next 13 years, we presented over 40 exhibitions at that location, several of which toured nationally and won industry awards.
With community support, we were able to purchase a building opposite one of Melbourne’s most beautiful synagogues, the St Kilda Hebrew Congregation. On 20 August 1995, the Governor-General Bill Hayden opened the Jewish Museum of Australia: Gandel Centre of Judaica, named for our lead benefactors, John and Pauline Gandel.
