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Achieving a Long-Standing
Vision For the Future

A Design Proposal for a 3-D Museum


 

 


World Jewish Communities
Remembering Jewish life in the

cities, towns and villages in
which our ancestors once lived.

 

 

FEATURED EXHIBITIONS


 
 

POSTCARDS FROM HOME

In the years that preceded the end of World War II, the photograph served a very important function, not only for families who were living in Europe at the time, but also for those who decided to emigrate and start new lives in the United States and elsewhere in the world. Many families went to large towns or big cities so that they could take one last photograph together before one of them emigrated. The families that had cameras, of course, could take their own photographs, and they often sent these photographs to their relatives living abroad by postal mail, accompanied by a letter, or a few words of affection written in Yiddish on the back. These photographs would often create one last visual memory that would remind the recipient, for the rest of their lives, of the years that they had spent together as a family, as for so many they would never see each other again. Visit this exhibition >>

 

 



 

             

 


Eastern European Jewry


A variety of exhibitions that deal with the history of European Jewry over the past centuries. More >>


 

 

 


The Holocaust


Many aspects of this tragic
period of Jewish Life in Europe
is presented here, in hopes of contributing in some small way:
to educate and to remind
everyone that such an immense tragedy must never happen again.
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From the Pale to
the Golden Land

How Our Families Came to America


This part of the Museum provides information about how our families managed to come to America, and hopefully, it will paint a picture of the troubles and travail that our ancestors had to deal with in order to become denizens, if not citizens, of the United States. More >>
 





 

 


Living in America
The Jewish Experience


T
opics relating to Jewish
family life will be discussed.
The hope is that a proper portrait of the Jewish American, both young and old, can be drawn, from the early days of immigration to the present. More
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Education and Research Center


An earnest attempt has been made to make available information that may benefit those who have an interested in learning more about modern Jewish history and their own family history in all its many facets.  More
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   Museum of the
    Yiddish Theatre


The Museum holds a number of collections that are related in some way to the history of the Yiddish theatre. The collection consists of items such as photographs, theatre programs, sheet music, audio recordings. etc. More >
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The Museum of Family History Comes to Brooklyn
The Faces and Places That Made This New York City Borough So Special


A special wing of this virtual museum has been built that is dedicated to the people of Brooklyn, New York (Kings County).

Here you will find a series of exhibits about its neighborhoods, its people, which will take you back in time to the Brooklyn of years ago, so that you may imagine the way life used to be here. Want to see and read about those who once made Brooklyn their home?

Would you like to see and read about the various places and institutions, e.g. the movie houses, the Yiddish theatres, the synagogues and the streets of Brooklyn. Would you like to learn more about modern Brooklyn Jewry? If so, please visit this online exhibition!
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VIDEOS
 

 

 

The Screening Room

Watch previews to
35 documentaries.


Film: Projections of Life: Jewish Life before World War II. Courtesy of the United States Holocaust Museum, via YouTube. (28m., 35s.)

 

 

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