The recently published new volume of East European Jewish Affairs — Volume 45 Numbers 2–3 August–December 2015 — is devoted to new Jewish museums in post-communist Europe and has many articles that will be of interest to JHE readers. (JHE Coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber contributes an article on the Czech 10 Stars project and other synagogue renovations and exhibits in the Czech Republic.)
The issue will be formally launched on Sunday, January 10, at a symposium at the Center for Jewish History in New York, when the editors and several of the contributors will speak.
Here is the Table of Contents:
EAST EUROPEAN JEWISH AFFAIRS : Volume 45 Numbers 2–3 August–December 2015
SPECIAL ISSUE: “New Jewish Museums in Post-Communist Europe”
Editors: Anna Shternshis and David Shneer
Guest Editors: Olga Gershenson and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
CONTENTS
Editorial
– Why Jewish Museums? David Shneer and Anna Shternshis 151
Introduction
– New Jewish museums in post-communist Europe, Olga Gershenson and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 153
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow
– The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow: Judaism for the masses, Olga Gershenson 158
– The shtetl in the museum: representing Jews in the eras of Stalin and Putin, Deborah Yalen 174
– Inside the Museum: Torahs, Tanks, and Tech: Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Benjamin Nathans, Risa Levitt Kohn, Natan M. Meir, Oleg Budnitskii, and Jonathan Dekel-Chen 190
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw
– The Square of Polish Innocence: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and its symbolic topography, Elzbieta Janicka 200
– Inside the Museum: Curating between hope and despair: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 215
Museums in East-Central Europe
– Staging traumatic memory: competing narratives of state violence in post-communist Hungarian museums, Anna Manchin 236
– From restored past to unsettled present: new challenges for Jewish museums in east central Europe, Katalin Deme 252
– Inside the Museum: When Orthodox synagogue meets museum: the New Jewish Community Museum in Bratislava, Maros Borsky 261
– Reportage: Beyond Prague’s “Precious Legacy”: post-communist Jewish exhibits and synagogue restorations in the Czech Republic, Ruth Ellen Gruber 264
– Reportage: Romania and its Jewish museums, Dan-Ionut Julean 279
– Inside the Museum: Nothing is going to change? Adaptation of the Jewish Pre-Burial House in Gliwice, Natalia Romik 290
– Inside the Museum: Galicia Jewish Museum: Re-defining the role of the Jewish museum in a post-communist Poland, Jakub Nowakowski302
Museums in the Former Soviet Union
– Reportage: The Bukharan-Jewish Museum in Samarkand: memory preservation of a rapidly-diminishing community, Zeev Levin 305
– Reportage: Small exhibits, major steps: four post-Soviet Jewish museums, Anastasia Felcher 312
– Inside the Museum: The Jewish Museum of Chisinau (Kishinev), Irina Shikhova 321
– Inside the Museum: The Museum of Jewish History in Russia, Moscow, Maria Kaspina and Hillel Kazovsky 323
– Inside the Museum: A Museum in a museum—the experience of exhibiting Jewish collections in the Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Shimon Iakerson and Marina Shcherbakova 326
2 comments on “New issue East European Jewish Affairs — all about new Jewish museums”
What is known about The Temple ( the progressive synagogue )in Lwow ( Lviv) destroyed by Nazis in 1941 ? Are known some documents ( list of prayers ) ?
Why no mention of the Jewish Museum in Chernivtsi Ukraine???