Derfner Judaica Museum

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The Derfner collection depository may be a cultural and academic center that has exhibitions with reference to somebody history and modern somebody culture.The depository is found within the Jacob Reingold marquee on the grounds of The Hebrew Home at Riverdale within the Riverdale neighborhood of borough, New York.Opening to the general public on Gregorian calendar month eleven, 2009, the Derfner collection depository, designed by creator Louise Braverman, occupies a new enlarged five,000-square-foot (460 sq m) exhibition house within the Jacob Reingold marquee at The Hebrew Home at Riverdale. It’s the attentiveness for a good vary of academic and exhibition programming for Hebrew Home residents and therefore the public. Completion of the depository was funded partly by a furnishings grant received from the big apple town Department of Cultural Affairs.The inaugural exhibition, Tradition and Remembrance: Treasures of the Derfner collection depository, explores the intersections of somebody history and memory. The stories of objects employed in ancient somebody observe square measure understood in light-weight of the role of memory in shaping each individual and communal identities. Among the featured objects within the exhibition square measure a silver filagree jar, ca. 1911, associate degreed an early copper alloy Hannukah lamp, from the known Bezalel Academy of Art and style supported in capital of Israel in 1906. The Bezalel faculty artists merging “varied strands of surroundings, tradition and innovation,” in paintings and craft objects that invokes “biblical themes, monotheism style and European traditions,” within their effort to “carve out a particular type of somebody” art for the new nation they supposed to create in the ancient Jewish mother country.Other objects with reference to somebody observe come back from close to and much, as well as a group of eighteenth century German Torah implements from Meerholz FRG and a velvet fish-scale adorned unleavened bread cowl from turn-of-the-century capital of Israel.The collection depository was supported in 1982 once Riverdale residents Ralph and Leuba Baum given their assortment of somebody ceremonial art to the house. A expatriate from Nazi abuse, Ralph Baum (1907-1984) and his married woman, Leuba (d. 1997), had associate degree intense want to preserve and die to future generations the memory embodied within the objects they collected, the bulk of that were used primarily by European Jews before the Holocaust. In 2008 the collection depository was named in honor of benefactors Helen of Troy and Harold Derfner.Rotating exhibits square measure supported its one,000 object collection; it’s conjointly given exhibits of somebody art and artifacts from different non-public collections, museums and art colleges.One of the more odd exhibitions at the depository was a show entitled “Culture as Commodity” that offered a range of Judaica-related things, as well as Israeli Coca-Cola t-shirts, that were purchased from eBay and different net auction sites.The Derfner collection depository formally opened on Gregorian calendar month eleven, 2009 to favorable reviews.

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