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| name          = The Jewish Museum
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| caption       = The Jewish Museum is housed in the [[Felix M. Warburg House]].
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| established   = 1904
| location      = [[1109 Fifth Avenue]] at 92nd Street, [[Manhattan]], [[New York (state)|New York]]
| type          = Art Museum
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| architect     = [[C. P. H. Gilbert]]
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The '''Jewish Museum''' is an [[art museum]] and repository of cultural artifacts, housed at 1109 [[Fifth Avenue]], in the former [[Felix M. Warburg House]], along the Museum Mile on the [[Upper East Side]] of [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]]. The first Jewish museum in the United States, as well as the oldest [[wikt:extant#Adjective|extant]] Jewish museum in the world, it contains the largest collection of art and [[Jewish culture]] excluding [[List of museums in Israel|Israeli museums]], more than 30,000 objects.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |url=http://thejewishmuseum.org/about#jewish-museum-history |title=The Jewish Museum History |publisher=The Jewish Museum |access-date=April 4, 2016 |archive-date=November 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122070754/https://thejewishmuseum.org/about#jewish-museum-history |url-status=live }}</ref> While its collection was established in 1904 at the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]], the museum did not open to the public until 1947 when Felix Warburg's widow sold the property to the Seminary.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1116.pdf |title=Felix Warburg Mansion |website=Landmarks Preservation Commission |date=November 24, 1981 |access-date=March 2, 2016 |archive-date=February 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225071254/http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1116.pdf |url-status=live |id=LP-1116}}</ref> It focuses both on artifacts of [[Jewish history]] and on modern and contemporary art. The museum's collection exhibition, ''Scenes from the Collection'', is supplemented by multiple temporary exhibitions each year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions |title=Exhibitions |access-date=July 29, 2011 |archive-date=October 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029131403/https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions |url-status=live }}</ref>

==History==
{{See also|History of the Jews in New York City}}
The collection that seeded the museum began with a gift of [[Jewish ceremonial art]] objects from Judge [[Mayer Sulzberger]] to the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] on January 20, 1904, where it was housed in the seminary's library. The collection was moved in 1931, with the Seminary, to 122nd and Broadway. The Jewish Theological Seminary received over 400 Jewish ceremonial items and created, 'The Museum of Jewish Ceremonial Objects', previously the Jacob Schiff Library.<ref name=":2" /> The collection was subsequently expanded by major donations from Hadji Ephraim Benguiat and [[Harry G. Friedman]]. In 1939, in light of [[World War II|WWII]], Poland sent about 350 objects to New York city from homes and synagogues in order to preserve them.

Following Felix Warburg's death in 1937, in January 1944 his widow [[Frieda Schiff Warburg|Frieda]] donated [[Felix M. Warburg House|the family mansion]] to the seminary as a permanent home for the museum, and the site opened to the public as 'The Jewish Museum' in May 1947.<ref>{{cite New York 1960|page=1110}}</ref> Frieda Warburg said at the opening that the museum would not be a somber memorial, but rather a celebration of the Jewish faith and traditions.<ref name=":2" /> The first expansion of the museum was the addition of a sculpture garden in 1959 by Adam List.<ref name=":2" /> The building was expanded in 1963 and further by architect [[Kevin Roche]] in 1993.
[[File:People_outside_The_Jewish_Museum_-_2004_Museum_Mile_Festival.jpg|thumb|right|Museum in 2004]]
In the 1960s, the museum took a more active role in the general world of contemporary art, with exhibitions such as ''[[Primary Structures (1966 exhibition)|Primary Structures]],'' which helped to launch the [[Minimalism#Minimalism in visual art|Minimalist art]] movement.<ref name="nyt-1993-06-13">{{cite news |title=A Museum Finds Its Time |first=Michael |last=Kimmelman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/13/arts/art-a-museum-finds-its-time.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 13, 1993 |page=H33 |access-date=July 31, 2010 |archive-date=September 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906160755/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/13/arts/art-a-museum-finds-its-time.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In the decades since, the museum has had a renewed focus on Jewish culture and Jewish artists.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jewish Museum as Sum of Its Past |first=Roberta |last=Smith |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/11/arts/review-art-jewish-museum-as-sum-of-its-past.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 11, 1993 |access-date=July 31, 2010 |archive-date=March 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322134912/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/11/arts/review-art-jewish-museum-as-sum-of-its-past.html |url-status=live }}</ref> From 1990 through 1993, director [[Joan Rosenbaum]] led the project to renovate and expand the building and carry out the museum's first major capital campaign, of $60 million. The project, designed by architect Kevin Roche, doubled the size of the museum, providing it with a seven-story addition. In 1992, the Jewish Museum and the [[Film Society of Lincoln Center]] teamed up to create The New York Jewish Film Festival, which presents narrative features, short films and documentaries.

Today, the museum also provides educational programs for adults and families, organizing concerts, films, symposiums and lectures related to its exhibitions. Joan Rosenbaum was the museum's director from 1981 until her retirement in 2010. In 2006, the museum broke with its longstanding policy of being closed for [[Shabbat|Sabbath observance]] by offering free of charge public admission on Saturdays.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://thejewishmuseum.org/press/press-release/free-saturdays-release |title=The David Berg Foundation Underwrites Free Saturdays at the Jewish Museum |access-date=December 6, 2020 |archive-date=September 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906151833/https://thejewishmuseum.org/press/press-release/free-saturdays-release |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2011 the museum named [[Claudia Gould]] as its new director. In 2012 Claudia Gould hired [[Jens Hoffmann]] Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Public Programs. In early December 2017, the Jewish Museum suspended Hoffmann from his position following allegations of sexual harassment leveled against him by multiple staff members. In the wake of that decision, the Honolulu Biennial cut its ties with Hoffmann, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit suspended him from his role as chief curator at large (a position from which he resigned later that month) and the Kadist Art Foundation similarly suspended him from his position as curator and adviser. The 3rd People's Biennial was supposed to take place at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art in 2019, with Hoffmann co-directing; however, the museum suspended its involvement with Hoffmann after the sexual harassment allegations at the Jewish Museum were not resolved. On December 17, 2017, the Jewish Museum terminated Hoffmann after a review of the allegations. Hoffmann denied "knowingly or purposefully [behaving] in a bullying, intimidating, harassing, or sexually inappropriate manner."

In 2022, [[Yale University]] historian Michael Casper criticized the museum's exhibition on [[Jonas Mekas]] for its lack of treatment of Mekas's role in editing two pro-Nazi newspapers during World War II.<ref>{{Cite web |title=World War II Revisionism at the Jewish Museum |url=https://jewishcurrents.org/world-war-ii-revisionism-at-the-jewish-museum |access-date=February 4, 2023 |website=Jewish Currents |language=en}}</ref> Cultural historian Jeffrey Shandler told the [[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]], "It would be problematic anywhere, in any museum. But I think it is doubly so in a Jewish museum. It really raises questions about their understanding of their mission."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Elia-Shalev |first=Asaf |date=May 12, 2022 |title=Historian accuses NY's Jewish Museum of sanitizing filmmaker's World War II record in new exhibit |url=https://www.jta.org/2022/05/12/global/historian-accuses-nys-jewish-museum-of-sanitizing-filmmakers-world-war-ii-record-in-new-exhibit |access-date=February 4, 2023 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}</ref>

The Russ & Daughters Cafe at the museum closed in 2020 due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in New York City]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Cramer |first=Philissa |date=April 12, 2022 |title=It's official: Russ & Daughters' kosher outpost at the Jewish Museum won't return |url=https://www.jta.org/2022/04/12/ny/its-official-russ-daughters-kosher-outpost-at-the-jewish-museum-wont-return |access-date=November 11, 2024 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency}}</ref> In November 2024, the restaurateur [[David Teyf]] opened a restaurant named Lox in the museum.<ref>{{cite web |last=Keys |first=Lisa |date=November 7, 2024 |title=At last, a new restaurant opens at the Jewish Museum in the space vacated by Russ & Daughters |url=https://www.jta.org/2024/11/07/ny/at-last-a-new-restaurant-opens-at-the-jewish-museum-in-the-space-vacated-by-russ-daughters |access-date=November 11, 2024 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=McDowell |first=Michael |date=November 8, 2024 |title=New Restaurant Now Open At Jewish Museum: Report |url=https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/new-restaurant-now-open-jewish-museum-report |access-date=November 11, 2024 |website=Upper East Side, NY Patch}}</ref>

==Building==
{{main|Felix M. Warburg House}}
[[File:Jewish Museum building line drawing - b&w - 600 ppi.jpg|thumb|[[Felix M. Warburg House]], 1908]]
The [[Felix M. Warburg House]] was constructed in [[Francis I of France|François I]] (or [[châteauesque]]) style, 1906-1908 for Felix and Frieda Warburg, designed by [[C. P. H. Gilbert|C.P.H. Gilbert]]. François I style was originally found in New York City in the late 19th century through the works of [[Richard Morris Hunt]].<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1116.pdf |title=Landmarks Preservation Commission |date=November 24, 1981 |website=NYC.Gov |access-date=March 1, 2016 |archive-date=February 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225071254/http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1116.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Hunt was a renowned architect throughout the Northeast, particularly in New England and was one of the first American architects to study at the elite [[École des Beaux-Arts|Ecole des Beaux-Arts]] in Paris, France.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000278 |title=Hunt, Richard Morris |last=Roth |first=Leland |date=2009 |website=North Carolina Architects and Builders |access-date=April 4, 2016 |archive-date=November 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211121171316/https://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu//people/P000278 |url-status=live }}</ref> C.P.H. Gilbert was an apprentice of Hunt and emulated Hunt's classic Châteauesque style for the Warburg house while also adding some [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic]] features.<ref name=":02" /> The original house is built in limestone with mansard roofs, dripping moldings, and gables.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/11/realestate/streetscapes-the-felix-warburg-mansion-a-window-to-the-past-in-the-present.html |title=The Warburg Mansion |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=August 11, 1991 |work=The New York Times |access-date=February 17, 2017 |archive-date=September 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906150323/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/11/realestate/streetscapes-the-felix-warburg-mansion-a-window-to-the-past-in-the-present.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This architectural style was based on French revivalism and exuded wealth, a point which Felix Warburg wanted to make to his neighbors. It featured a green yard in front of the house, which was later converted into the museum's entrance.<ref name=":2" />

===Renovations===
[[File:Interior of Jewish Museum.jpg|thumb|right|Interior exhibit of the Jewish Museum]]
Once converted into a museum, the architect [[Kevin Roche]], who also designed additions to the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], was selected to design additions to the Jewish Museum.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/11/arts/review-architecture-jewish-museum-renovation-a-celebration-of-gothic-style.html |title=Review/Architecture; Jewish Museum Renovation: A Celebration of Gothic Style |last=Muschamp |first=Herbert |date=June 11, 1993 |work=The New York Times |access-date=March 27, 2016 |archive-date=October 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002003734/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/11/arts/review-architecture-jewish-museum-renovation-a-celebration-of-gothic-style.html?pagewanted=all |url-status=live }}</ref> After $36 million, the development of 11,000 more square feet of exhibition space, and two and a half years, Roche finished his additions in June 1993.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/06/travel/travel-advisory-jewish-museum-reopens-sunday.html |title=TRAVEL ADVISORY; Jewish Museum Reopens Sunday |date=June 6, 1993 |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=March 27, 2016 |archive-date=September 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906153250/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/06/travel/travel-advisory-jewish-museum-reopens-sunday.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He intended his additions to be a continuation of the museum's Gothic revival features. This is especially clear in the Fifth Avenue facade and the auditorium. The Fifth Avenue facade, made of Indiana limestone, is carved in Gothic revival style. The auditorium is set in a retrofitted Gothic revival style ballroom and finds uses for the mansion's stained-glass dome and screen. The cafe in the basement has stained glass windows.<ref name=":1" />

Although these additions that were intended as a continuation of the museum's Gothic revival features, Roche also included additions that were meant to prevent the museum from appearing outdated and modernizing the facilities. For instance, Roche ensured that the education center and the auditorium would have the appropriate technology for their purposes, such as interactive visual displays.<ref name=":1" />

==Collections==
[[File:Gaudstikker The Jewish Museum New York.jpg|thumb|Gallery talk about the exhibition "Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of [[Jacques Goudstikker]]"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/Goudstikker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125223917/http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/Goudstikker |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 25, 2009 |title=Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker}}</ref>]]

The museum has nearly 30,000 objects including paintings, [[sculptures]], archaeological artifacts, [[Jewish ceremonial art]] and many other pieces important to the preservation of [[Jewish history]] and culture.<ref name="nyt-1993-06-13"/> Artists included in the museum's collection include [[James Tissot]], [[Marc Chagall]], [[George Segal]], [[Eleanor Antin]] and [[Deborah Kass]].<ref>''Masterworks of The Jewish Museum''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004</ref> This represents the largest collection of [[Jewish art]], Judaica and broadcast media outside of [[List of museums in Israel|museums in Israel]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Jewish Museum Reopens Sunday |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/06/travel/travel-advisory-jewish-museum-reopens-sunday.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 6, 1993 |access-date=July 31, 2010 |archive-date=September 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906153250/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/06/travel/travel-advisory-jewish-museum-reopens-sunday.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It has a collection exhibition called ''Scenes from the Collection'', which displays works of art from antiquity to the present. The museum's collection includes objects from ancient to modern eras, in all media, and originated in every area of the world where Jews have had a presence.

===Highlights===
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*[[Man Ray]], Self-Portrait with Camera, 1930
*[[Andy Warhol]], ''[[Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century]]'', 1980
*[[Eva Hesse]], Untitled, 1963–64
*[[Richard Avedon]], Jacob Israel Avedon portraits, 1969–73
*[[Adolph Gottlieb]], Return of the Mariner, 1946
*[[Deborah Kass]], Double Red Yentl, Split, from My Elvis series, 1993
*Jan Pogorzelski, [[Menorah (Hanukkah)|Hanukkah menorah]], 1893
*[[James Tissot]], Adam and Eve Driven From Paradise, c. 1896–1902
*[[Alfred Stieglitz]], [[The Steerage]], 1907
*[[Reuven Rubin]], Goldfish Vendor, 1928
*[[Marc Chagall]], Old Man with Beard, c. 1931
*Johann Adam Boller [[Menorah (Hanukkah)|Hanukkah menorah]], Frankfurt am Main (Germany), 1706–32
*[[Torah Ark]] from Adath Yeshurun Synagogue, Abraham Shulkin, 1899

==Selected art exhibitions==
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Some of the museum's important exhibitions have included:

*[[Primary Structures (1966 exhibition)|Primary Structures]] (1966) 
*''The Circle of [[Montparnasse]]: Jewish Artists in Paris, 1905–1945'' (1985)
*''[[The Dreyfus Affair]]: Art, Truth, and Justice'' (1987)
*''Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, 1900–1945'' (1991)
*''Too Jewish?: Challenging Traditional Identities'' (1996)
*''Assignment: Rescue, The Story of [[Varian Fry]] and the [[Emergency Rescue Committee]]'' (1997)
*''An Expressionist in Paris: The Paintings of [[Chaïm Soutine]]'' (1998)
*''Voice, Image, Gesture: Selections from The Jewish Museum's Collection, 1945–2000'' (2001)
*''Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art'' (2002)
*''New York: Capital of Photography'' (2002)
*''[[Amedeo Modigliani|Modigliani]] Beyond the Myth'' (2004)<ref>[http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/site/pages/onlinex.php?id=22 Modigliani: Beyond the Myth Exhibition press release, The Jewish Museum, New York 2004] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070307024110/http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/site/pages/onlinex.php?id=22 |date=March 7, 2007 }} Retrieved March 7, 2011</ref>
*''[[Eva Hesse]]: Sculpture'' (2006)
*''Action/Abstraction: [[Jackson Pollock|Pollock]], [[Willem de Kooning|de Kooning]], and American Art, 1940-1976'' (2008)
*''Shifting the Gaze: Painting and [[Feminism]]'' (2010–2011)
*''[[Harry Houdini]]: Art and Magic'' (2010–2011)
*''[[Maira Kalman]]: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)'' (2011)
*''Collecting [[Matisse]] and Modern Masters: The [[Cone sisters]] of Baltimore'' (2011)
*''The Radical Camera: New York's [[Photo League]]'', 1936-1951 (2012)
*''[[The Snowy Day]] and the Art of [[Ezra Jack Keats]]'' (2012)
*''[[Kehinde Wiley]] / The World Stage: Israel (2012)''
*''[[Édouard Vuillard]]: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940'' (2012)
*"Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the [[Bodleian Library]]" (September 14, 2012 – February 3, 2013)
*"Sharon Lockhart  Noa Eshkol" (November 2, 2012 – March 24, 2013)
*''Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television'' (May 1 to September 27, 2015)
*"[[Pierre Chareau]]: Modern Architecture and Design" (November 4, 2016 – March 24, 2017)<ref name=nyt.chareau>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Roberta |date=November 3, 2016 |title=The Virtual Splendor of Paris's Glass House |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/arts/design/pierre-chareaus-legacy-beyond-the-house-of-glass.html |newspaper=New York Times |location=New York |access-date=November 3, 2016 |archive-date=March 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322130613/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/arts/design/pierre-chareaus-legacy-beyond-the-house-of-glass.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share |url-status=live }}</ref>
*"[[Chagall]], [[Lissitzky]], [[Kazimir Malevich|Malevich]]: The Russian Avant-Garde in [[Vitebsk]], 1918-1922" (September 14, 2018 – January 6, 2019)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://thejewishmuseum.org/index.php/exhibitions/chagall-lissitzky-malevich-the-russian-avant-garde-in-vitebsk-1918-1922 |title=Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922 |publisher=The Jewish Museum |access-date=March 5, 2019 |archive-date=February 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210217054533/https://thejewishmuseum.org/index.php/exhibitions/chagall-lissitzky-malevich-the-russian-avant-garde-in-vitebsk-1918-1922 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-sassoons "The Sassoons"] Exhibit from March 3 to August 13, 2023. [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/arts/design/sassoons-jewish-museum-art-exhibition.html?searchResultPosition=1 Review] in ''The New York Times''. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sassoons-review-a-jewish-family-in-an-imperial-world-2cfdc04c Review] in ''The Wall Street Journal''.

==Gallery==
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|File:Female Figurine.jpg|Female Figurine, Israel,<ref>[http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/onlinecollection/object_collection.php?objectid=16079&lefttxt=female%20figuirine The Jewish Museum]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 800 -700 B.C.
|File:Female votive head.jpg|Female Votive Head Cyprus (?),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/onlinecollection/object_collection.php?objectid=295&lefttxt=female%20votive%20head |title=Female Votive Head |publisher=The Jewish Museum |access-date=September 27, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090721054307/http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/onlinecollection/object_collection.php?objectid%3D295 |archive-date=July 21, 2009}}</ref> early 5th century B.C.
|File:Marriage Contract Vercelli (Italy), 1776.jpg|[[Ketubah|Marriage contract]], from [[Vercelli]] (Italy),<ref>[http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/onlinecollection/object_collection.php?objectid=18871&lefttxt=marriage%20contract%20italy The Jewish Museum]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 1776
|File:Seder plate.jpg|Seder Plate, Tiered Seder Set, Eastern Galicia or Western Ukraine,<ref>[http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/onlinecollection/object_collection.php?objectid=5622&lefttxt=seder%20plate%20tiered The Jewish Museum]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 18th-19th century
|File:Thomas Sully - Sally Etting - Google Art Project.jpg|[[Thomas Sully]], ''Portrait of Sally Etting'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/onlinecollection/object_collection.php?objectid=10068&themeid=1185 |publisher=The Jewish Museum |title=Thomas Sully, Sally Etting, Paintings |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130120153330/http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/onlinecollection/object_collection.php?objectid=10068&themeid=1185 |archive-date=January 20, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 1808
|File:The return of the volunteer.jpg|[[Moritz Daniel Oppenheim]], ''The Return of the Volunteer from the Wars of Liberation to His Family Still Living in Accordance with Old Customs'',<ref>[http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/onlinecollection/object_collection.php?objectid=1533&lefttxt=the%20return%20of%20volunteer The Jewish Museum]{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 1833–34
|File:Solomon Alexander Hart - The Feast of the Rejoicing of the Law at the Synagogue in Leghorn, Italy - Google Art Project.jpg|[[Solomon Alexander Hart]], ''[[Simchat Torah]] at the [[Synagogue of Livorno]]'', c. 1850
|File:Torah ark.jpg|[[Torah ark]] from Adath Yeshurun Synagogue, Abraham Shulkin,<ref>[http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/onlinecollection/object_collection.php?objectid=19085&lefttxt=torah%20ark%20adath The Jewish Museum]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 1899
|File:Tri 44742 1994-726.jpg|New Year Greeting, Germany,<ref>[http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/onlinecollection/object_collection.php?objectid=4771&lefttxt=new%20year%20greeting The Jewish Museum]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> early 20th century
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==Programs==
The Jewish Museum has a vast array of public educational programs which include talks and lectures, performances, hands on art making, group visits, specialist programming for visitors with disabilities, and resources for Pre-K-12 teachers.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://urbanareas.net/info/places/new-york/museums-and-galleries/jewish-museum/ |title=Jewish Museum (Manhattan, NY) |website=UrbanAreas.net |language=en-US |access-date=August 6, 2019 |archive-date=September 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918174432/https://urbanareas.net/info/places/new-york/museums-and-galleries/jewish-museum/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://thejewishmuseum.org/index.php/programs |title=Programs |website=The Jewish Museum |access-date=August 6, 2019 |archive-date=June 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618213811/https://thejewishmuseum.org/index.php/programs |url-status=live }}</ref> Programming for visitors with disabilities can take a unique and special form, with exclusive access to the museum one day a month for a program like the Verbal Description Tour.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://newlearningtimes.com/cms/article/4433/the-jewish-museum |title=The Jewish Museum |website=New Learning Times |language=en-us |access-date=August 6, 2019 |archive-date=August 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806025217/https://newlearningtimes.com/cms/article/4433/the-jewish-museum |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://thejewishmuseum.org/index.php/programs/visitors-with-disabilities |title=Programs - Visitors with Disabilities |website=The Jewish Museum |access-date=August 6, 2019 |archive-date=December 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201022738/https://thejewishmuseum.org/index.php/programs/visitors-with-disabilities |url-status=live }}</ref> Participants are guided around sections of the empty museum by an art educator, who provides detailed, verbal descriptions of the art work, shares touch objects, and encourages discussion amongst the visitors. One participant described the ability to touch the art work as "...an honor, to be able to touch it. It felt like we were doing something so special, that other people can't do. So it actually creates an experience where you feel a connection to the art."<ref>{{Cite episode |url=https://newlearningtimes.com/cms/article/4433/the-jewish-museum |title=The Jewish Museum |series=Seen In NY |series-link=Seen in NY |network=[[New Learning Times]] |date=June 14, 2017 |number=217 |access-date=August 6, 2019 |archive-date=August 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806025217/https://newlearningtimes.com/cms/article/4433/the-jewish-museum |url-status=live }}</ref>

Programming at the Jewish Museum caters for many different constituents, from live musical performances to events specifically curated for children, and families.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.renoirhouse.com/blog/jewish-museum-this-spring |title=Check Out What's Happening at The Jewish Museum This Spring |website=renoirhouse.com |language=en |access-date=August 6, 2019 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414203504/https://www.renoirhouse.com/blog/jewish-museum-this-spring |url-status=live }}</ref> Events can be co-sponsored or in conjunction with other museums, particularly those located nearby on Fifth Avenue's [[Museum Mile (Manhattan)|Museum Mile]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://blogs.brandeis.edu/wowblog/2019/06/26/interning-at-the-jewish-museum-in-manhattan/ |title=Interning at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan |last=Kressel |first=Hannah |date=June 26, 2019 |language=en-US |access-date=August 6, 2019 |archive-date=February 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224233805/http://blogs.brandeis.edu/wowblog/2019/06/26/interning-at-the-jewish-museum-in-manhattan/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Part of the goal of family programming is to help foster a younger audience for the museum, with Sunday being "family day", with a variety of activities on offer including gallery tours, free art workshops and parent-children storybook readings. Activities are designed to cross cultures, and explore subjects that can appeal to any race or religion, such as archaeological digs or an examination of color and impressionistic landscapes.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Markovitz |first=Jennifer B. |date=December 2008 |title=A Multi-Cultural Destination Sharing Jewish Art and Traditions With a Diverse Audience |url=https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3470&context=dissertations |journal=Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses |pages=20–22pp |access-date=August 6, 2019 |archive-date=May 31, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180531161418/http://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3470&context=dissertations |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Management==
As of 2013, the Jewish Museum operates on a $17 million annual budget.<ref>Allan Kozinn (February 12, 2013), [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/arts/design/claudia-gould-on-her-first-year-as-director-of-jewish-museum.html A Museum Broadens Its Identity] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112041830/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/arts/design/claudia-gould-on-her-first-year-as-director-of-jewish-museum.html |date=November 12, 2020 }} ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref> Under Joan Rosenbaum's leadership the museum's collection grew to 26,000 objects, its endowment to more than $92 million and its annual operating budget to $15 million from $1 million in 1981.<ref>Robin Pogrebin (November 30, 2010), [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/director-of-jewish-museum-to-step-down/ Director of Jewish Museum to Step Down] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616180303/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/director-of-jewish-museum-to-step-down/ |date=June 16, 2013 }} ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref> Rosenbaum chose to emphasize the Jewish side of the museum's identity, creating the permanent exhibition "Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey," while also mounting shows of modern Jewish artists such as [[Chaïm Soutine]] and contemporary artists such as [[Maira Kalman]].<ref name="nytimes.com">Kate Taylor (August 23, 2011), [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arts/jewish-museum-chooses-claudia-gould-as-director.html Jewish Museum Picks Director From Art World] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111191854/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arts/jewish-museum-chooses-claudia-gould-as-director.html |date=November 11, 2020 }} ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref> In 2013, the museum's board chose Claudia Gould, former director of the [[Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia]], as its new director.<ref name="nytimes.com"/>

In 2015 Kelly Taxter was named one of the top 25 female curators in the world by ArtNet.<ref>{{Cite web |title=25 Women Curators On the Rise - artnet News |date=March 17, 2015 |url=https://news.artnet.com/people/25-women-curators-on-the-rise-276386 |access-date=September 12, 2015 |archive-date=March 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316135053/https://news.artnet.com/people/25-women-curators-on-the-rise-276386 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Jews in New York City]]
*[[List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City]]

==References==
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==External links==
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*{{Official website|https://thejewishmuseum.org/}}
*[https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions#current "Current Exhibitions"] at the Jewish Museum website
*[https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions#past "Past Exhibitions"] at the Jewish Museum website
*[https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-jewish-museum-new-york?hl=en Jewish Museum (Manhattan)] within [[Google Arts & Culture]]

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