1. Jewish Museums And Museum Resources Worldwide National Museum of American Jewish History Albert L. Schultz Jewish Community Center, Palo Alto http://www.nmajh.org/links/links1.htm

Return to main Links page Jewish Museums and Museum Resources Worldwide United States Arizona Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum, Phoenix California Albert L. Schultz Jewish Community Center, Palo Alto Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley ... My Jewish Discovery Place Children's Museum, Los Angeles Koret Gallery, Palo Alto Elizabeth S. Fine Museum, San Francisco Colorado Jewish Community Center of Denver* Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, Denver Mizel Museum of Judaica, Denver District of Columbia B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum National Museum of American Jewish Military History Lillian and Albert Small Jewish Museum Florida Sanford L. Ziff Jewish Museum of Florida, Miami Beach Harold and Vivian Beck Museum of Judaica, Miami Tampa Bay Holocaust Memorial Museum Georgia The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, Atlanta Illinois Spertus Museum, Chicago Rabbi Frank F. Rosenthal Memorial Museum, Olympia Fields Maryland The Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore Massachusetts Starr Gallery, Newton Centre

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HaReshima: The Jewish Internet Portal New Sites Trivia Contest Add URL Hebrew Calendar ... Site Map Jewish Museums Business Congregations Culture Entertainment ... Women Page of 8th Stone in the Galilee Sculpture Symposium 8th "Stone in the Galilee", the annual international Sculpture sympsium, taking place in Maalot-Tarshiha, Israel, every year during Passover week. URL: http://www.maltar.org.il/even8eng/ Anne Frank House URL: http://www.annefrank.nl/ Archaeological Museum Kibbutz Ein Dor URL: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3603/indexfr.html Austrian Jewish Museum URL: http://members.ping.at/oejudmus/ Berlin's Jewish Museum Impressions from the opening, Berlin's Jewish Museum URL: http://www.hagalil.com/juedisches-museum/ Beth-Hatefutsoth Museum of Jewish People URL: http://www.bh.org.il/ Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem URL: http://www.mada.org.il/ Exhibit of Judaica at Yale University Library URL: http://www.library.yale.edu/exhibition/judaica/

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4. Jewish Museums And Historical Resources The following list of jewish museums is organized by country interested in to view a list of that country's jewish museums or scroll down to view the entire list. http://www.isjm.org/Links/museums.htm

International Survey of Jewish Monuments Jewish Museums and Historical Resources Home The following list of Jewish museums is organized by country. Please click on the country you are interested in to view a list of that country's Jewish museums or scroll down to view the entire list. Argentina Australia Austria Belarus ... USA See also www.aejm.org for the Association of European Jewish Museums. USA United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad 888 17th Street, N.W., Suite 1160 Washington, DC 20006 Tel. (202) 254-3824 Fax (202) 254-3934 e-mail: uscommission@heritageabroad.gov ARIZONA Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum of Temple Beth Israel 10460 N. 56th Street Scottsdale, AZ 85253 Tel.(480) 951 0323 www.angelfire.com/az2/judaicamuseum/ The museum houses a rotating exhibit of Judaic artifacts from around the world, displayed on the theme of holiness through Life Cycle Events and Holidays. Throughout the year, it also hosts many programs on a variety of topics of Jewish interest such as well-known guest speakers, special exhibitions, lectures, films, and symposia. CALIFORNIA Judah L. Magnes Museum

5. Jewish Museums Of The World Nineteenthcentury jewish museums sought to engage a non-Jewish audience, hoping that the objective study of Holocaust, one of the first jewish museums was created in Germany and http://www.hlla.com/catalog/jewmuseums.html

Book Categories Art Nature Judaica Ethnic Cultures Military Crafts Keepsake Books Books for Brides Calendars Children's Classics Other Skip To . . . Front Page Who we are / contact info. Ordering Info. Books by Title Books by Category Upcoming Titles Reference Library Authors Reviews Interactive Area Search this site Jewish Museums of the World by Grace Cohen Grossman The only book that presents the breadth of existing Jewish museums Since the beginning of the Diaspora, almost two thousand years ago, Jews have been wandering, all the while influencing and being influenced by the communities where they have settled. This active exchange resulted in a tremendously rich variety in even the simplest of traditional and ceremonial objects. Today, hundreds of museums around the world share in the responsibility of protecting and celebrating the beauty, variety, and tradition of the Jewish way of life and the Judaic objects that the worldwide Jewish community has generated. Nineteenth-century Jewish museums sought to engage a non-Jewish audience, hoping that the objective study of Jewish customs would diminish the age-old negative stereotypes of the Jewish people. The twentieth century has seen the establishment of museums that celebrate the importance and the depth of Jewish history for Jews and non-Jews alike. With the decimation of the eastern European Jewish population as a result of the Holocaust, one of the first Jewish museums was created in Germany and, although meant to be a museum of an extinct people, the Germans amassed the greatest single collection of Judaica yet in existence. Today, Jewish museums in Central and Eastern Europe are creating their exhibitions and programs in places where there are few remnants of the once-thriving communities. In America, the Jewish museum mission finds the links to the rich, vibrant history of Jewish life in America and elsewhere.

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7. Jewish Museums jewish museums. Australia. Canada. Europe see Virtual Exhibits Regional jewish museums by State http://www.jewishhistory.huji.ac.il/links/jewish_museums.htm

Jewish Museums NEW! We are currently in the process of transferring all the links listed on our site to a new searchable database (annotated with keywords and many more functions)! If you own a website and are interested in listing your site in our new index click here! If you want a peek at our new database - click here! Australia Canada Europe ... United States Australia The Sydney Jewish Museum The Jewish Museum St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia see Virtual Exhibit Canada Jacob M. Lowy Collection - National Library of Canada, Ottawa Silverman Heritage Museum The Marion and Ed Vickar Jewish Museum of Western Canada The Holocaust Education and Memorial Centre of Toronto Europe Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam or Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam (new site) Anne Frank House The Jewish Museum of Athens Jewish Museum of Austria Jewish Museum Hohenems Austria ... Jewish Historical Museum Belgrade, Serbia Judiska Museet Stockholm, Sweden Mediterranean Institute Memory and Archives of Judaism Marseilles, France ... Paris, France Israel/Middle East ilMuseums - Index of museums in Israel Archaeological Museum, Kibbutz Ein Dor

8. MIDRASH: Jewish Museums, Counter-terrorism, Jewish Communities Worldwide The Digital Genizah is an encylopedic database of Jewish related URL's of a global nature. Worldwide Jewish Media from Israeli, Europe, the United States, Canada, South America, and Australia. jewish museums. AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY http//www.ajhs.org/ jewish museums OF PRAGUE http//www2.judaica.org80/PJ/precious/ precious2.html http://www.uscj.org/metny/middletown/midrash.htm

THE DIGITAL GENIZAH A Jewish Internet Directory THE DIGITAL GENIZAH MENU JEWISH MUSEUMS AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: http://www.ajhs.org/ ANN FRANK'S HOUSE: http://www.channels.nl/amsterdam/annefran.html BABYLON JEWRY HERITAGE MUSEUM: http://www.BabylonJewry.org.il An historical museum of the Jews of Babylon over 2700 years: From exile Israel (721-586 BCE) until return. BETH HATEFUTSOTH: http://www.bh.org.il/ Museum of the Jewish Diaspora BLOOMFIELD SCIENCE MUSEUM IN ISRAEL: http://www.mada.org.il/ ELLIS ISLAND MUSEUM: http://www.ellisisland.org/ GHETTO FIGHTERS MUSEUM: http://www.gfh.org.il/ HERSHLY BEN HAIM WEBSITE: http://ajrr.com/ben-haim/bh1.htm ISRAEL BIBLE MUSEUM: http://www.israelbiblemuseum.com/ In Safed, Israel. ISRAEL NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: http://www.netvision.net.il/~sci_muse/ ISRAELI AND JEWISH MUSEUMS ON THE WEB: http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/israel_museums.html JERUSALEM'S ISRAEL MUSEUM TOUR: http://www.imj.org.il/ JEWISH MUSEUM: http://www.fieldtrip.com/ny/24233230.htm JEWISH MUSEUM OF ATHENS: http://www.greecetravel.com/jewishhistory/museum.html

9. Directory Of Jewish Museums Jewish Studies Global Directory of jewish museums. Also see Directory of Holocaust Museums. Germany, Munich, Association of European jewish museums, http://www.science.co.il/Jewish-Museums.asp

Israel Science and Technology Homepage Home Search About Contact Subject Menu Agriculture Biosciences Chemistry Computer science ... Jewish Studies : Global Directory of Jewish Museums Also see: Directory of Holocaust Museums Country City Museum Phone Australia Darlinghurst Sydney Jewish Museum Australia Victoria Jewish Museum of Australia Austria Eisenstadt Austrian Jewish Museum Austria Hohenems Judisches Museum Hohenems Austria Vienna Jewish Museum Vienna Judisches Museum der Stadt Wien Belarus Vitebsk Marc Chagall Museum Belgium Brussels Jewish Museum of Belgium Brazil Rio de Janeiro Museu Judaico Canada Toronto Silverman Jewish Heritage Museum Canada Winnipeg Jewish Museum of Western Canada China Shanghai Jewish Refugee Memorial Hall of Shanghai Czech Rep. Boskovice Greater Synagogue Czech Rep. Prague Jewish Museum in Prague Denmark Copenhagen Danish Jewish Museum Dansk Jodisk Museum France Cavaillon Synagogue and Jewish Museum of Comtadin Musee Juif Comtadin France Paris Musee d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaisme Germany Berlin Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum Germany Berlin Jewish Museum Berlin Judisches Museum Germany Creglingen Creglingen Jewish Museum Germany Frankfurt Jewish Museum Frankfurt Judische Museum Germany Furth Jewish Museum of Franconia Germany Goppingen Jewish Museum in Jebenhausen Germany Munich Association of European Jewish Museums Germany Munich Judisches Museum Munchen Greece Athens Jewish Museum of Greece Greece Crete Etz Hayyim Synagogue, Hania

10. Libeskind The Danish Jewish Museum differs from all other European jewish museums because Danish Jews were, by and large, saved through the effort of their compatriots http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/projects/pro.html?ID=39

11. Jewish Museums jewish museums. Australia. Canada. Europe. jewish museums Online. US Holocaust Memorial Museum see Virtual Exhibits -. Regional jewish museums by State. Arizona. http://jewishhistory.huji.ac.il/links/jewish_museums.htm

Jewish Museums NEW! We are currently in the process of transferring all the links listed on our site to a new searchable database (annotated with keywords and many more functions)! If you own a website and are interested in listing your site in our new index click here! If you want a peek at our new database - click here! Australia Canada Europe ... United States Australia The Sydney Jewish Museum The Jewish Museum St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia see Virtual Exhibit Canada Jacob M. Lowy Collection - National Library of Canada, Ottawa Silverman Heritage Museum The Marion and Ed Vickar Jewish Museum of Western Canada The Holocaust Education and Memorial Centre of Toronto Europe Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam or Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam (new site) Anne Frank House The Jewish Museum of Athens Jewish Museum of Austria Jewish Museum Hohenems Austria ... Jewish Historical Museum Belgrade, Serbia Judiska Museet Stockholm, Sweden Mediterranean Institute Memory and Archives of Judaism Marseilles, France ... Paris, France Israel/Middle East ilMuseums - Index of museums in Israel Archaeological Museum, Kibbutz Ein Dor

12. Jewish Museums Exhibits And Virtual Exhibits Museums, Exhibits and Virtual Exhibits. Related to Jewish Studies. Museums. Exhibits and Virtual Exhibits. http://jewishhistory.huji.ac.il/links/museums.htm

Museums, Exhibits and Virtual Exhibits Related to Jewish Studies NEW! We are currently in the process of transferring all the links listed on our site to a new searchable database (annotated with keywords and many more functions)! If you own a website and are interested in listing your site in our new index click here! If you want a peek at our new database - click here! Museums Exhibits and Virtual Exhibits Last Updated:

13. Association Of European Jewish Museums http://www.aejm.org/

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14. National Foundation For Jewish Culture: CAJM STATEMENTS, The Council of American jewish museums. The Council of American jewish museums (CAJM) encourages and furthers the http://www.jewishculture.org/museums/museums.html

CAJM STATEMENTS The Council of American Jewish Museums The Council of American Jewish Museums (CAJM) encourages and furthers the development of North American Jewish museums in collecting, preserving, studying, exhibiting and interpreting Jewish art and artifacts. The Council promotes cooperative efforts and resource sharing, public educational outreach, new research and scholarship, and understanding and support of Jewish museums among Jewish, general and museum communities. Founded in 1977 under the auspices of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, with only seven members, CAJM now includes over 80 institutions in United States and Canada and over 40 individual members. Membership Information Member Directory CAJM Conference Newsletter ... Steering Committee If you are interested in finding out more information about CAJM, please email cajm@jewishculture.org The National Foundation for Jewish Culture can be reached at (212) 629-0500; Fax: (212) 629-0508; E-mail nfjc@jewishculture.org

15. The National Foundation For Jewish Culture: 2002 Annual Report Council of American jewish museums. Arizona. Sylvia Plotkin Washington DC. B nai B rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum Washington, DC. http://www.jewishculture.org/publications/annualrep2002/cajm.html

DOWNLOADS LETTER FROM LEADERSHIP NATIONAL CULTURAL SERVICES COMMUNITY CULTURAL SERVICES ... STAFF Council of American Jewish Museums Arizona Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum Temple Beth Israel Scottsdale California Judah L. Magnes Museum Berkeley Ruth and Max Eis Collection of Judaica Reutlinger Community for Jewish Living Danville Simon Weisenthal Center - Museum of Tolerance Los Angeles Skirball Cultural Center Los Angeles Zimmer Jewish Discovery Children's Museum JCC Association of LA Los Angeles San Diego Center for Jewish Culture Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, Gotthelf Gallery San Diego The Congregation Emanu-El San Francisco Osher Marin Jewish Community Center San Rafael Colorado Mizel Center for Arts and Culture Denver Connecticut Chase/Freedman Gallery Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center West Hartford District of Columbia National Museum of American Jewish Military History Jewish War Veterans USA National Memorial Washington DC B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum Washington, D.C.

16. Judaism And Jewish Resources - Andrew Tannenbaum The National Museum of American Jewish History has an good directory of jewish museums. The Sydney Jewish Museum Sydney, Australia; The Jewish Museum St. http://shamash.org/trb/judaism.html

Judaism and Jewish Resources The Internet is rich with Jewish resources. This page shows you the gates to these resources, so that you may go in and explore. This web page is ten years old! Here's what it looked like on 29 November, 1993. See more about my page for more historical info. The latest version of this page may be found at: http://shamash.org/trb/judaism.html How I select the links. About this page. Jump past table of contents. Table of Contents Central Services Mailing lists The State of Israel News and Media ... Bottom Central Services Israel is very well connected to the Internet. The Israel Internet Association maintains the national Domain Name registry. There are many companies and organizations on the web, in the public and private sector. This page points to Israeli indexes to keep track of most Israeli sites, rather than trying to duplicate their efforts. Machba (Merkaz haCHishuvim haBein-Universitai, the Israeli Interuniversity Computer Center) has an informative Israel Academic Network(ILAN) FAQ. The Israeli Internet Society is another good source of information. The Shamash Jewish Internet Consortium , a project of Hebrew College , includes texts of the tanach, divrei torah, kosher traveler's database, and mailing list newsletter archives. Shamash provides the web service that brings you this page.

17. Haaretz - English Shnek, said more money was needed to complete renovations of the 19th century building to bring it up to the level of other major jewish museums like those http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/423971.html

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18. Museums & Exhibits 2 and the Communist regime. While there is an increasing number of recognized Jewish historic sites in Poland and a number of local jewish museums, there has http://www.isjm.org/jhr/no2/museums2.htm

Jewish Heritage Report Vol. I, No. 2 / Summer 1997 Museums and Exhibits: Prague and Warsaw MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITS THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE RENEWED 90-YEAR OLD INSTITUTION UNDERGOES MAJOR REVIVAL AND EXPANSION UNDER JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP The Jewish Museum in Prague, founded in 1906, celebrated its 90th anniversary in 1996. Despite a tumultuous history, the institution is now growing – aggressively addressing problems of inventory, care, preservation, and restoration of the important artifacts and monuments in its collection. With over 35,000 objects from Bohemia and Moravia, the Jewish Museum possesses one of the most extensive collections of Judaica in the world. A number of historic sites, including the Old Jewish Cemetery, the Pinkus Synagogue, the Ceremonial Hall, the Klaus Synagogue, the Maisel Synagogue and the Spanish Synagogue are all under the Museum's care. The objective of the museum when it was created was to "collect, preserve and exhibit ritual items of household and synagogue worship as well as archive materials, manuscripts and illustrations of Jewish monuments and personalities." The museum staged its first exhibition in 1909 and continued to present exhibits until the German Occupation in 1939 when the Museum Association was dissolved. Dr. Karel Stein, fearing the destruction of Jewish artifacts, negotiated with the Nazis to establish the Central Jewish Museum to preserve and exhibit artistic and historical objects of the pre-war Jewish communities. Although his intention to preserve the objects was successful in the end, the Nazis viewed the museum in a very different light as a "museum of an extinct race."

19. The Jewish Museum And The Avant-Garde - Suite101.com Though today’s proliferation of jewish museums and cultural centers has lessened the responsibility of any one institution to reflect the entirety of the http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/jewish_american_history/38495

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20. MyJewishLearning.com - History & Community: Jewish Museums Jewish Muses at Home in jewish museums jewish museums present opportunities for team scholarship, public education and an equal opportunity access point for http://www.myjewishlearning.com/history_community/Jewish_World_Today/EducationTO

Jewish Muses at Home in Jewish Museums Jewish museums present opportunities for team scholarship, public education and an equal opportunity access point for the entire Jewish community. By Avi Decter The following article is reprinted with permission from the June 2001 issue of Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility For each home ground we need new maps, living maps, stories and poems, photographs and paintings, essays and songs. We need to know where we are, so that we may dwell in our place with a fullheart. Whereas forty years ago there was but one Jewish museum of any consequencethe Jewish Museum in New Yorktoday we encounter Jewish museums in most large American cities. I visited the Jewish Museum as a child, and recall that the old Warburg Mansion was then, as now, imposing, but the displays of Judaica were dusty and dull. Only one activity has stayed with mecasting for magnetized fish inscribed with didactic texts. Even 20 years ago, there were only seven museums that gathered to form the Council of American Jewish Museums (CAJM) under the auspices of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. Today, CAJM has a membership of about 60 professionally staffed museums and more than 100 Holocaust centers dot the landscape. What' s more, these institutions represent an important effort to create "living maps" for our communities. Far from being cabinets of curiosities or warehouses of a dead civilization, Jewish museums in America are a vibrant part of contemporary culture. In fact, Jewish museums in America are among the most conspicuous homes of the Muses, filled with history, literature, and dance, rhetoric, music, film, and theaternot to speak of Torah and current affairs. Indeed, American Jewish museums are cultural centers, public forums, studios, workshops, discovery places, and sites of serious scholarship.

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