Past Exhibitions

  • A Taste Of The Past: The Daily Life and Cooking of a 19th -Century Hungarian Jewis…

    April 10, 2005 - July 19, 2005
    Mezzanine Gallery

    Realistic pen and ink illustrations show us daily Jewish life in Moson, a small industrial town in western Hungary, at the turn of the century. The …

  • Manhattan Mincha Map: Photographs by Jaime Permuth

    January 30, 2005 - June 19, 2005
    Selz Foundation Gallery

    Jaime Permuth, born and raised in Guatemala and now living in New York City, was fascinated by the signs depicting Mincha minyans in Manhattan. In t…

  • Serif/Serafim: Out of Emptiness

    January 30, 2005 - May 29, 2005
    Sculpture Garden

    Seven cut steel sculptures of figurative Hebrew words exploring the idea of messengers by Jeffrey Schrier. Inspired by early 20th-century Jewish pap…

  • K' nex Synagogue Models – Models by Jason Gross

    February 20, 2005 - May 29, 2005
    Mezzanine Gallery

    A selection of delightful historic synagogue models built from K'NEX, the children's construction toy, was created as a bar mitzvah project by 13-ye…

  • Having Trouble To Pray -- Drawings and Paintings by Moico Yaker

    February 6, 2005 - May 1, 2005
    Popper Gallery

    An existential crisis assumes fantastical dimensions in "Having Trouble to Pray", Moico Yaker's lush, lyrical and sometimes whimsical series chronic…

  • The Manchester Megillah

    January 16, 2005 - March 27, 2005
    Mezzanine Gallery

    An original illustrated Megillat Esther by father and son Moshe and Mechel Haffner of Manchester, England, in which most characters are depicted as …

  • Two Crowns: One Crooked, One Straight

    August 22, 2004 - February 6, 2005
    Mezzanine Gallery

    After WWII, Yeshiva University received a Judaica collection from the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (JCR) - an organization that was founded to cat…

  • Stern College: Five Decades, One Dream

    October 24, 2004 - January 23, 2005
    Popper Gallery

    This exhibition celebrates the fiftieth anniversary Jubilee of Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University. It will feature photographs, documents…

  • Becoming An American Writer: The Life of Issac Bashevis Singer

    November 15, 2004 - January 16, 2005
    Selz Foundation Gallery

    In conjunction with the nationwide celebration of the centennial of Isaac Bashevis Singer's birth, this NEH funded traveling exhibition highlights i…

  • Pernambuco/Brazil: Gateway to New York

    September 8, 2004 - January 16, 2005
    Rosenberg & Winnick Galleries

    The exhibition Pernambuco/Brazil: Gateway to New York, focuses on the Sephardic Jewish presence in Recife, Pernambuco during the 16th & 17th centuri…