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A revived Jewish Museum spotlights the story of Jewish endurance

Summarizing PJ Grisar in Forward · Published Wednesday, October 22, 2025
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JL;DR SUMMARY The Jewish Museum in New York City has undergone a significant renovation, unveiling a core exhibition titled "Identity, Culture and Community: Stories from the Collection." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Identity  History  Diaspora  Community  Jewish Museum  Art  Judaica  Modernism  Culture  Exhibition 

Places mentioned

New York City, New York, United States
"A 1936 Alice Neel painting of a New York City Communist rally, illustrating her friend, the artist Sid Gotcliffe, holding a placard reading Nazis Murder Jews, appears alongside an apocalyptic, expressionist cityscape by Abraham Manievich."
Prague, Prague, Hlavní mešto, Czechia
"Hanging there is a selection of intimate portraits by Gertrud Kauders, whose paintings were discovered in the walls of a home outside Prague during a 2018 home renovation."
Kiev, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Manievichs depiction of a 1919 pogrom in the Kiev ghetto, in which his son was killed, seems to prefigure Picassos Guernica while being eerily absent of people."
Vitebsk, Belarus
"(Marc Chagall, who produced a similar series, is across the way, appearing to pee on his native Vitebsk, which he left for Paris.)"
South Africa
"Candace Breitzs video installation registers her discomfort, as a white woman chosen to represent South Africa at the 57th Venice Biennial, and so features a diverse and representative group of artists, saying I am Candace Breitz."
Iran
"A piece by Izhar Patkin, inspired by motifs on Persian rugs, faces a carpet from the 1890s with the likeness of Moses and Aaron, which the Shah of Iran is believed to have commissioned for his Jewish doctor."
United Kingdom
"Coinciding with the new core exhibit is a second floor show spotlighting the early works by Anish Kapoor, the Indian-born British artist, whose father was Hindu and whose mother was from the Iraqi Jewish community."
India
"Coinciding with the new core exhibit is a second floor show spotlighting the early works by Anish Kapoor, the Indian-born British artist, whose father was Hindu and whose mother was from the Iraqi Jewish community."
Baghdad, Iraq
"Imperial coins and helmets of Hellenic occupiers are on view. So too, are ritual objects from other Levantine groups, some several thousand years old, up to a 20th-Century bridal pin from Baghdad."

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