"Taxidermied Jews?" History, Present, and Future of the Jewish MuseumsJune 26, 2022 until March 19, 2022 | When the then chairman of the Jewish Community, Paul Grosz, was asked many years ago what he thought of the establishment of a Jewish Museum, he asked a bitter counter-question. Whether Jews should be marveled at there “like taxidermied Indians“? Today, there are over 120 Jewish museums worldwide—whereby the definition of their designating adjective is by no means uniform. There are those to whom the institution itself is a Jewish one, to others the institution’s topic is Judaism—from the most varied perspectives. ... more ►
