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A family in the Seduva shtetl, captured before the world they knew disappeared. The Lost Shtetl Museum offers an intimate look at religious, civic and cultural life in communities like these. (The Lost Shtetl Museum/collection of Anat Rosen)
Posted inCulture

Echoes of a lost shtetl: How sound is recreating a vanished Jewish world

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz January 26, 2026January 26, 2026

In the countryside of a quiet Lithuanian town, sounds of a vanished shtetl have returned to life. Voices chattering in Yiddish mingle with clucking chickens, crowing roosters and accordion music […]

Attendees line up for opening night of the 2022 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival at the Castro Theater. (David A.M. Wilensky/J. Staff)
Posted inCulture

Jewish cultural institutions reeling as Trump defunds arts and humanities

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev April 9, 2025April 13, 2025
Hannah Weisman is the new executive director of the Magnes Collection. (Photo/Ryuji Suzuki)
Posted inArt

Magnes Collection appoints Hannah Weisman as new executive director

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten November 21, 2022November 22, 2022
The youngest of 11 children, Faisal Saleh, founder of the Palestine Museum US, was born in 1951 in the West Bank town of El Bireh.
Posted inUncategorized

In America’s only Palestinian museum, a chance to explore common ground (and mostly avoid politics)

by Cathryn J. Prince and Forward May 10, 2022
The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, photographed on Oct. 17, 1934, is superimposed with an image of a page from a manuscript of a Tiberias rabbi who traveled to Europe on a fundraising mission in 1807. (Photo/JTA-MCNY-Gottscho-Schleisner-Getty Images)
Posted inHistory

A Jewish library’s treasure surfaced at auction. How did it get there?

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA July 28, 2021
Chad Coerver has been named executive director of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
Posted inCulture

CJM taps Chad Coerver, longtime SFMOMA staffer, to be new executive director

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten July 21, 2021July 21, 2021
From "Prayer for Burnt Forests" by Julie Weitz, 2021, which will soon be featured at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. (Photo/Aaron Farley)
Posted inCulture

Contemporary Jewish Museum plans to reopen April 17

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 3, 2021March 4, 2021
Gugulethu Moyo is the new executive director of the Tucson Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center. (Illustration/JTA-Grace Yagel)
Posted inU.S.

New leader of Tucson’s Holocaust museum is a genocide survivor herself

by Phyllis Braun and JTA February 4, 2021February 8, 2021
Professor Rachel Gross of San Francisco State University's new book is "Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice." (Photo/Gary Sexton)
Posted inReligion

In ‘Beyond the Synagogue,’ Jews find religion in delis and museums

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 28, 2021March 12, 2021
From the Contemporary Jewish Museum's new exhibit, "Predicting the Past: Zohar Studios, The Lost Years."
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Contemporary Jewish Museum to reopen with limited capacity Oct. 17

by J. Staff September 24, 2020September 29, 2020

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