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 (Featuring
the "Proclaim Liberty"
Kiddush Cup)
WATCH THIS SITE FOR NEWS OF :
ENTERING FROM THE INSIDE: The Art of Memory
Coming to the Temple Judea Museum Fall 2008
Internationally recognized artist,
Michele Brody will build a site-specific installation that will
celebrate the museum’s historic namesake – Congregation Temple Judea –
and the Ivy Leaf School, this country’s oldest African-American private
school, which now occupies the former Temple Judea building. Families
from both Ivy Leaf and Temple Judea, as well as KI members and Museum
Friends will all be a part of this amazing project. Watch this site for
more news, photos and sketches.
ENTERING FROM THE INSIDE: The Art of
Memory Is funded in part by the Five County Arts Fund, The Mandell
Foundation, Ann Swern and others. (list incomplete)
Temple Judea Museum
is Currently Featuring
“Treasures
from the Collection of
Mimi Grimes”
20th century Jewish ephemera.
A Journey from
the Cairo Genizah to the Twenty-First Century
Exhibition Dates:
October 21, 2007 -
January 11, 2008
Opening
Reception and Program
Sunday, October 21st, 3:00 – 5:00PM
Rabbi Lance
J. Sussman will speak at 4:00PM
And Everything
They Had Gathered:
Genesis 12:5
Click here for more information
View Images from the Exhibition
Previous Exhibit:
Deborah Schafer
CHUTZPAH, SCHMALTZ, WHIMSY AND REALISM:
THE ART OF DEBORAH SCHAFER
-
Temple Judea Museum Exhibition - extended through July 14.
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Chutzpah,
Schmaltz, Whimsy and Realism:
(Including an image of
Deborah's: Bagel Brunch at the Union League)
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Thoughts from
the Artist
Previous Exhibit
The Eugene and Marie Buxton
CollectionOf Jewish Music and Performing Arts
View Images
from the Exhibition
Description of the
Exhibition
Read what the "Forward" had to say about the exhibit
Check out the Museum's newsletter
for parents and children. It's the Museum Chat!
Some of the artists
whose works have been exhibited recently at the Temple Judea Museum
Temple Judea Museum
Rita Rosen Poley, Director/Curator
Karen Shain Schloss, Chair
THE TEMPLE JUDEA MUSEUM
The Temple Judea Museum was founded in 1984 to contain the merged Judaica collections of two Philadelphia – area synagogues, Temple Judea, and Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel. The museum staff includes a director/curator and an active group of volunteers. The Friends of the Museum offers tours and special events.
PERMANENT COLLECTION:
The Temple Judea Museum has as its mission the presentation of Judaica, the visual objects that signify the observances of Judaism. The mandate of the museum begins with a collection of almost 1000 objects: its preservation, growth, exhibition, and use as an educational tool.
The museum's collection contains artifacts from countries around the world including: the United States, Italy, Germany, Poland, Russia, Egypt, Turkey, France, Hungary, Holland, England and Israel. Holdings include a fine assortment of antiquities from ancient Israel, a comprehensive textile collection, books, paintings, prints, photographs, and a variety of ephemera that complement the many precious and rare objects preserved in this collection.
A FEW HIGHLIGHTS:
- A major collection of silver ceremonial objects.
- The second oldest American ketubah (marriage contract) from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1778.
- An embroidered Torah wimpel (binder), one of the oldest known to have survived the Holocaust, made from an infant's swaddling cloth, 1695
- A unique, contemporary Elijah's Chair, used in covenant ceremonies, commissioned by the Friends of the Museum.
- A religious commentary printed in Venice, Italy, 1574.
ACTIVITIES:
In addition to its collection and preservation activities the museum operates an annual schedule of three to four original exhibitions that are free and open to the community. These exhibitions vary widely in content and theme, but the educational content of an exhibition is always of paramount importance. Of each yearly cycle of exhibitions one is drawn exclusively from the collection. The other exhibitions extend the reach and scope of the museum beyond the limits of the collection. A recent exhibition about the Bezalel School, Israel’s first art school, included objects drawn from the Temple Judea Museum along with works borrowed from three private collections.
Some past exhibitions have focused on the Jews of Ethiopia, Jewish soldiers in the Civil War, Israel, Jewish rituals of the life cycle, the Holocaust, comic books as an expression of Jewish experience, hand-made books, and art of the bible. Every one of our exhibitions contains a separate set of labels written especially for children, so that families visiting independently can approach the exhibition material in an interactive way.
Lectures and tours, often drawing visitors from different religious and ethnic groups, deepen the educational value of the exhibitions. Senior, church, and school groups are among the many visitors the museum welcomes each year from our local community, Greater Philadelphia, many states of the union, and abroad. Museum volunteers conduct special tours of the synagogue’s famous suite of stained glass windows by noted artist, Jacob Landau.
For more information, or to set up a group tour, call the Museum
at 215-887-2027 or 215-887-8700, or fax 215-887-1070.
E-Mail: TJMuseum@aol.com
Museum hours: Mondays - Fridays
9am - 5pm
Friday evenings before Shabbat services
Also by appointment, groups welcome
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