Jewish museums
Balancing the universal and the particular.
The Jews of Ferrara.
Ilan Ramon and the book of Enoch.
Its director resigns after it engages in pro-BDS lobbying.
No, the Holocaust didn’t happen because of a lack of love.
Assuming no education, offering little knowledge, and affecting not to care about either, New York’s Jewish Museum promises to inspire new forms of an “ever-changing” Jewish identity.
Oddly discomfited by the Jewish center of the story it tells, and overly content with contemporary platitudes.
The Met’s Jerusalem 1000-1400 is just one example of the way Jewish history, Jewish ideas, and Jewish art are trimmed to the purposes of contemporary taste and opinion.
The 500th anniversary of the first ghetto.
An Orthodox rabbi’s unorthodox museum.
They are still invoking dated forms of self-abnegation, or engaging in more or less ignorant forms of advocacy, or yearning for a vague universalism.
Why are so many Jews convinced that Jewish history, and Jewish pain, exist only to serve the needs of others?
From Maine to Florida and beyond, the Jewish museum is a nationwide (and worldwide) phenomenon. Why do Jews keep building them?
Ours is an era of museums celebrating the identity of nearly every group and ethnicity. But something else takes place when the identity in question is Jewish.