Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale

Current Exhibitions

Missing Generations: Photographs by Jill Freedman

March 19–July 16, 2023

This exhibition includes thirty-six black and white images by the noted street photographer Jill Freedman (b. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1939–d. New York, New York, 2019) documenting sites of destruction and the resurgence of Jewish life after the Holocaust in Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Dating from 1993 and 1994, they feature survivors at commemorative events at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Warsaw Ghetto and Terezín (Theresienstadt) in the former Czechoslovakia, the Jewish quarter in Prague and portraits of survivors in Boca Raton and Miami, Florida. Learn more >>

Tradition and Remembrance: Treasures of the Derfner Judaica Museum

Ongoing

With approximately 250 objects, this exhibition drawn from the permanent collection explores the intersections of Jewish history and memory. The stories of objects used in traditional Jewish practice are interpreted in light of the role of memory in shaping both individual and communal identities. Among the featured objects in the exhibition are a silver filigree vase, ca. 1911, and an early copper alloy Hanukkah lamp, both from the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts founded in Jerusalem in 1906. Other objects come from near and far, including a set of 18th-century German Torah implements, a handsomely illuminated 19th-century Italian marriage contract and a 2nd–4th century lamella amulet. Learn more >>