Exhibition Tour
Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collections of the Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum’s renovated collection galleries will trace the rich history of migration, assimilation, and endurance that is the trademark of Jewish culture across the global diaspora through a new and expansive installation. Featuring more than 200 works, organized in a loose chronology, this thematic installation begins with a display underscoring the historic importance of Torah and Jewish ritual as unifying symbols for Jewish communities and changing political, social, and cultural landscape of the global diaspora from antiquity through the 20th and 21st Centuries. Subsequent chapters explore such themes as how art can serve as a repository of memory and an expression of identity in the face of forced migration and persecution; the visual vocabularies that emerged in post-World War II art and design; the role of women in Jewish culture and the impact of feminism on artistic output; and how Jewish identity and experience are being interpreted in contemporary art.