Exhibits & Museums

prepared April 2004
Special Exhibits
The Golden Dynasty: Families Relating to King David
Rambam Library at Beit Ariela, Tel-Aviv

A Local Wedding
Ketubbot from Eretz Israel, 1829-1960

Ethnography and Folklore Pavilion, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv

The Destroyed Wooden Synagogues of Poland
The exhibition of Moshe Verbin' models of the destroyed wooden synagogues of Poland in the 17th and 18th Century, is now on a permanent display at "ORT" College in Givat Ram Jerusalem, Israel. The models and the documentation about each synagogue are in two display windows in the main corridor of the college, which is situated on the right side of the entrance to the Hebrew university.
The address is:
Ort College
Givat Ram
Jerusalem 95435 Israel
Telephone: 02-6754602

The synagogues are of the following towns: Bzhozdovtse,Gombin (Gabin), Grodno, Gwozdziec, Jablonow, Janow Sokolski, Jurborg, Kamionka, Strumilova, Khodorov, Konskie, Kornik, Lutomiersk, Narowla (Narovlya), Nasielsk, Odelsk, Olkeniki, Pechenizhin, Pogrebishche, Przedborz, Shukyany, Sniadowo, Suchowola, Uzlyany, Warka, Wilkowishki, Wolpa, Wysokie Mazowieckie, Wilkowishki, Zabludow.
http://www.zchor.org/verbin/verbin.htm
Additional Meetings of Interest to Genealogists
Meeting of the Genealogical section of the Center for Research on Dutch Jewry
July 11, 2004 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus

Museums
Beth Hatefutsoth – The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora
including:
The Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center
Bernard H. and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center
http://www.bh.org.il
German-Speaking Jewry Museum at Tefen
http://www.ilmuseums.com/museum_eng.asp?id=115
Ghetto Fighters' House "Lohamei Getaot"
http://english.gfh.org.il/
Library and Research Center
Israel Museum
http://www.imj.org.il
Judaica & Jewish Ethnography Wing
Italian Jewish Museum & Synagogue
The museum is dedicated to preserving the Italian Jewish heritage.
http://www.jija.org
Library
Jewish Battalions Musem
The museum is dedicated to preserving the Italian Jewish heritage.
http://www.ilmuseums.com/museum_eng.asp?id=163
Library & Records
Memorial Museum of the Hungarian Speaking Jewry
The Museum is dedicated to the history and cultural heritage of Hungarian Speaking Jewry before the Holocaust. This includes besides Hungary of today also Slovakia, Carpathian Russia (Ukraine now), Transylvania (in Romania now), the Bachka-Banat area (in Yugoslavia) and Burgenland (in Austria).
http://www.hjm.org.il
Archive
The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center
http://www.babylonjewry.org.il/
Library and Collections
The Chamber of the Holocaust
http://www.holocaustchamber.org/
The Jewish Legions Museum (Beit Hagedudim)
http://www.isragen.org.il/ROSE/ARCHIVES/archive-Jew-Legion-2.html
General Museum Site for all of Israel
http://www.ilmuseums.com/