Past Exhibitions

  • Stern Senior Art Show

    May 16, 2010 - October 17, 2010
    Selz Foundation Gallery

    The Studio Art program at Stern College for Women, an undergraduate division of Yeshiva University, provides a foundation-based course of study that…

  • Sukkot from Sukkah City

    September 22, 2010 - September 29, 2010
    Sculpture Garden

    In celebration of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles), Yeshiva University Museum and the Center for Jewish History present a selection of sukkahs from the…

  • Drawing on Tradition: The Book of Esther

    February 21, 2010 - August 15, 2010
    Popper Gallery

    This exhibition depicts the Book of Esther as you've never seen it before. Featuring the bold and edgy illustrations from JT Waldman's Megillat Esth…

  • A Journey Through Jewish Worlds: Highlights from the Braginsky Collection of Hebr…

    March 21, 2010 - August 1, 2010
    Rosenberg & Winnick Galleries

    A Journey Through Jewish Worlds offers museum visitors a first-time glimpse at the rare treasures inside a world-class private collection. This exce…

  • Many Lives: A Sculptural Installation by Andrew Rogers

    November 22, 2009 - May 16, 2010
    Sculpture Garden

    Australian artist Andrew Rogers, creator of one of the world's largest contemporary land art projects, transforms the Museum’s garden through sculpt…

  • Folk Art Judaica by Herman Braginsky

    August 9, 2009 - May 2, 2010
    Mezzanine Gallery

    Carved ritual objects made of fine and aged woods, including tzedakah boxes, Torah pointers, mizrach plates, mezuzot, dreidels, Torah arks, spice co…

  • Creation and the Ten Commandments: A Visual Journey by Rudi Wolff

    August 9, 2009 - May 2, 2010
    Mezzanine Gallery

    Digital serigraphs inspired by two cornerstone biblical texts: Genesis and the Ten Commandments. An award-winning New York graphic artist, Rudi Wolf…

  • Letters of Conscience: Raphael Lemkin and the Quest to End Genocide

    November 15, 2009 - April 18, 2010
    Selz Foundation Gallery

    This exhibition focuses on the activities and legacy of Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-American Jewish lawyer who coined the term genocide, working relent…

  • In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis

    November 22, 2009 - February 28, 2010
    Rosenberg & Winnick Galleries

    In the Beginning re-imagines the first chapter of Genesis through a series of commissioned works by dynamic and internationally acclaimed contempora…

  • Hyman Bloom: A Spiritual Embrace

    September 13, 2009 - January 24, 2010
    Popper Gallery

    Considered by Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock to be "the first Abstract Expressionist in America," Hyman Bloom never gave up representational …