Jewish Museum

Historian accuses NY’s Jewish Museum of sanitizing filmmaker’s World War II record in new exhibit

Avante-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas left Lithuania under murky circumstances, claims historian Michael Casper.

By Asaf Elia-Shalev May 12, 2022 5:39 pm

It’s official: Russ & Daughters’ kosher outpost at the Jewish Museum won’t return

A popular location appears to fall victim to the pandemic.

April 12, 2022 10:55 am

Workers push to unionize at the Jewish Museum in New York

If the effort succeeds, it would be the second New York Jewish museum to unionize during the pandemic.

January 12, 2022 2:31 pm

Tiny Japanese carvings on view at the Jewish Museum tell the story of a Jewish family’s resilience

By Sandee Brawarsky November 18, 2021 3:17 pm

The permanent display at the Manchester Jewish Museum in Manchester, UK celebrates the blue-collar roots of the community, when many of its members worked in steel and textile. (Chris Payne)

Manchester’s revamped Jewish museum celebrates the community that left it behind

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 2, 2021 3:00 pm

$Alexander Klyachin listens to and Marina Loshak, director of the Pushkin State Museum at her institution in Moscow, Russia on Sept. 30, 2019. (Mikhail Metzel\TASS via Getty Images)$

‘Pride exists to be part of something Jewish’: Russian billionaire to head Moscow museum’s board

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 26, 2021 10:31 am

NYC’s Jewish Museum to reopen Oct. 1 following 6-month closure due to coronavirus

By Marcy Oster September 24, 2020 9:39 am

Museum of Jewish Montreal told it must vacate premises

By Marcy Oster May 27, 2020 3:29 pm

The interior of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Bas de Brouwer)

Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter is getting ready to reopen, but some wonder if it will ever be the same

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 19, 2020 3:05 pm

Pedestrians walking outside the Jewish Museum of Munich on March 24, 2007. (Wikimedia Commons/Maximilian Dörrbecker)

Jewish museums in Munich and Vienna announce plans to reopen this month

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 7, 2020 4:06 pm

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