Temple Israel

Flight: Chagall, Miro and the Plight of RefugeesThis stunning exhibition, which is on loan from Josh and Joanna Lipman, features twelve works by 20th Century masters representing the struggle of refugees and their search for freedom. This series was organized by the International Rescue Committee, which was established in 1933 to aid European refugees escaping the Nazis. Several of the artists represented are of Jewish heritage and were directly helped by the IRC.

Read The Commercial Appeal's article regarding this fabulous exhibit.

The exhibit is on display to the public Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:00am-2:00pm March 22-August 22, 2010.

Temple Israel MuseumThe Temple Israel Museum houses and proudly displays a remarkable treasure of Jewish ritual art featuring The Herta and Justin H. Adler Judaica Collection.

Through its symbolic content or function, Jewish art illustrates the creative expression of the Jewish people based on their historical and religious experiences from antiquity to the present.

The Adler Collection takes us into the homes and synagogues of places far away and people long since deceased.

It includes the works of artisans from Germany, France, Morocco, Egypt, Poland, Russia, Israel, and America.

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Menorah Display December, 2009Beautiful, hand-crafted, original menorahs were on display in Temple's atrium foyer between the sancutary and Daniziger chapel.

Pictures of ResistanceThe Temple Israel Museum was proud to hose a special exhibition entitled, Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photographs of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman, featuring the only known Jewish partisan photographer during World War II. (Read The Commercial Appeal article, September 29, 2009, about the exhibit.)

The exhibition ran from September 1 through October 31, 2009.

Pictures of Resistance is a rare and compelling exhibition of 30 photographs that depict a heroic band of tough partisans– some Jewish, some not – who fought the Nazis and their collaborators.

Armed with only a camera, Schulman captured unforgettable images of camaraderie, horror and loss, bravery and triumph. Each photograph poses probing, and sometimes haunting, questions about the people whose lives were documented by Schulman, whose talents preserved for history the faces of nameless heroes who risked their lives to fight the century's greatest evil.

Born in Poland in 1924, Faye Schulman received her first camera from her brother when she was 13. It was that camera which ultimately saved her life and allowed her to later document Jewish partisan activity.

During the war, Schulman traveled with the Russian Moltava brigade, whose encampment was near her hometown. Along with serving as a doctor's aide, Schulman also took the photographs featured in this exhibition. She developed and printed two-inch negatives beneath blankets in the forest. Schulman is the only known Jewish photographer to capture on film the Jewish partisan resistance during the Holocaust.

Pictures of Resistance is produced by the Jewish Partisan Education Foundation and is brought to Temple Israel by generous local sponsors.

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