TOO JEWISH?
CHALLENGING
TRADITIONAL
IDENTITIES
Part 8 of 8



TOO JEWISH? CHALLENGING TRADITIONAL IDENTITIES was organized by The Jewish Museum, New York. The Jewish Museum is under the auspices of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The exhibition has been supported, by grants from The Nathan Cummings Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, Barbara S. Horowitz, Israel Discount Bank, the New York State Council on the Arts, Joan and Hyman Sall, Maureen and Marshall Cogan and the "21" International Holding,, Inc. Foundation, Ellen Schloss Flamm, Linda and Ronald F. Daitz, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, William S. Ehrlich and Ruth Lloyds, and Ulrich and Harriet Meyer.

TOO JEWISH? CHALLENGING TRADITIONAL IDENTITIES has been organized by Norman L. Kleeblatt, Susan and Elihu Rose Curator of Fine Arts, The Jewish Museum, New York, with Maurice Berger, consulting curator, and Mira R. Goldfarb Berkowitz, assistant curator. The video art program has been organized by Robin F. White.

In her exhibition catalogue foreward, Linda Nochlin writes, "The admirable achievement of the Too Jewish? show, both as an exhibition and as a concept, is that it destroys or sends up Jewish stereotypes (for better or for worse) at the same time that it powerfully and wittily evokes the range and variety of modern Jewish identities. This is no small achievement. From high theory to mass media representation, from kitsch menorahs to haute couture -- Too Jewish? raises the questions without providing easy answers, and gives a good measure of provocation and visual pleasure in the process." The 187-page, illustrated catalogue that accompanies the exhibition, co-published by Rutgers University Press and The Jewish Museum, is available in the gift shop of the National Museum of American Jewish History.

Support for the Philadelphia installation of the exhibition and programs has been provided by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council; the Dobkin Family Foundation; the Connelly Foundation; the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; the Robert Saligman Jewish Heritage Fund; the Samuel S. Fels Fund; Bell Atlantic-Pennsylvania; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; Prudential Securities, Inc.; the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia; the Fischer Foundation; and Judy and Bob Klein.

The Museum gratefully acknowledges the support of The Pew Charitable Trusts toward exhibitions and programs.


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