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THE TEMPLE JUDEA MUSEUM
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Israel Science Project
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Current Exhibition
ELEMENTAL ISRAEL:
From a Scientist’s Point of View
March 26 – June 30, 2010
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Invitation
The Prophetic
Quest
Jacob Landau Stained Glass Windows
at
Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel
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Coming Exhibition: Fall 2010
September 3, 2010 – March
5, 2011
Fighting from the Sidelines:
The WWII Home-front
Guest Curator: Marlene D’Orazio Adler
Selections from the Silver Family World War II Home-front Ephemera
Collection
A Visual Response by Members of the KI Artists’ Collective and
Students of the KI Confirmation Academy
A Photographic Tapestry
Selections from The Temple Judea Museum permanent collection
Sixty-Five years ago the World War II conflict ended
in Europe. The armed struggle that led to the defeat
of Nazi Germany was fought on foreign shores but
that struggle was also experienced, albeit from a
distance, by Americans who were left at home. Almost
every family had a loved one serving in harm’s way
far from home, and the extraordinary military effort
that defeated the Nazis and liberated the death
camps, was supported by a massive civil effort that
became known as “The Home-front”. This exhibition
remembers that fateful time in our history.
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Some of the artists
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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@KenesethIsrael.org
Museum hours: Mondays - Fridays
9am - 5pm
Friday evenings before Shabbat services
Also by appointment, groups welcome
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