Vintage Israeli appliances, food packaging, and tableware, evoking a very specific period in the country’s history, are now fodder for museum exhibits
How to tell the story of a people
Around the country, shuls facing declining attendance are being converted into museums and cultural centers
World Youth Day was a large boost to attendance. But how about Pokémon Go?
Yad Vashem comes in at No. 22, ahead of the Terracotta army and mausoleum, but way behind New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art at No. 1
German museum hangs painting backwards to raise money to rightfully buy it
Nazi leader’s former residence in Austria will be a ‘House of Responsibility’
New ‘Holocaust Cellar’ is the first public learning center of its kind in Romania
The museum restaurant serves dishes inspired by artists like Jackson Pollock
The Holocaust destroyed Plock’s Jewish community. But the exodus started decades earlier, after World War I.
More than a million people visit the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland each year, where they’re led by specially trained tour guides charged with telling—and retelling—a story of unimaginable horror
Vote for Lazarus in silly Jewish Hall of Fame contest
Polish museum project
As the Spertus Museum courts controversy, is it trying too hard—or not hard enough?
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