NMAJH E-newsletter
June 22, 2007
Enews June 2007
Greeetings!
Welcome to the electronic newsletter of the National Museum of American Jewish History. This newsletter is designed to keep you informed of exhibitions, programs and other activities of the NMAJH, the only Museum in the country exclusively presenting educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore and celebrate the history of the Jews in America.
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1. MUSEUM REACHES $100 MILLION FOR CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
Demolition Begun on Independence Mall Site
The Museum has raised $100 million toward its goal of $150 million for its new home on Independence Mall. At a recent event at New York's Mandarin Oriental Hotel held to thank leadership donors from across the country for helping to reach the milestone, Museum Co-chairman George Ross noted, "many of you in the room tonight have played a key role in the initial success of our campaign. I can't thank you enough for your leadership and generosity in helping to transform our vision into reality."
In particular, Ross thanked Caroline and Sidney Kimmel for their "extraordinary support of numerous medical, educational, and cultural institutions across the United States and beyond."
Sidney Kimmel made a lead gift to the Museum of $25 million in November 2002 when the project was first announced. Demolition of the "KYW Building," at 5th and Market streets, the location of the new museum, began in mid-June with minor interior work.
The new Museum [pictured above], will have 100,000 square feet, with 25,000 square feet devoted to the core exhibition and 5,000 square feet for changing exhibitions. The Museum will have five stories, with a concourse below ground that will house an education center comprised of classrooms, a resource center, and the 200-seat Dell Family Theater.
"I cannot think of a greater legacy to give to our children, grandchildren and future generations than this Museum that will provide the stories of our rich past and will build a bridge to an even richer future," Museum Co-chairman Ron Rubin said at the event.
The Museum is designed by the internationally acclaimed architectural firm Polshek Partnership Architects. The exhibition designers are Gallagher & Associates.
For information on how to support the new Museum, contact Director of Institutional Advancement Irv Hurwitz by phone at 215.923.3811 x 133.
2. FORSHPEIS! WELCOMES YOU DURING WELCOME AMERICA WEEK
Museum to Take Part in July 4th Celebration.
The Museum is taking part in this year's Sunoco Welcome America festival, a week long July 4th celebration featuring a myriad of activities throughout the city. Last year, more than three million people attended the festivities, the theme of which this year is "Celebrate Freedom."
Among the activities offered to visitors is the Museum's exhibition, Forshpeis! A Taste of the Peter H. Schweitzer Collection of Jewish Americana.
Forshpeis! reveals aspects of American Jewish life by looking at food in a range of settings, including in the kitchen and at the deli. Forshpeis! also explores, through the Schweitzer Collection, the role food played in helping immigrant Jews adjust to life in the United States and illustrates how Jewish foods, like American Jews themselves, have become a part of the American mainstream.
On view in the exhibition are a wide range of food related artifacts, from cookbooks and old seltzer bottles, to photographs depicting families around the seder table, and a promotional poster announcing that "You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's real Jewish Rye."
Among the types of events for all ages at the Welcome America festival are concerts, carnivals, movie screenings, and fireworks. To learn more about the Sunoco Welcome America celebration, visit http://www.americasbirthday.com/.
To schedule a visit to the exhibition and Museum, email or call the The Education Department at 215.923.5984. Education Department webpage has more information about programs and booking tours.
The Forshpeis! exhibition was made possible in part through the generous support of the Independence Foundation, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. The Museum receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
3. CHAI FIVE GIVEN TO THE SHOP FOR NEW ITEMS
Beginning this month, the Museum Shop will be featuring new items such as t-shirts and hats showcasing sayings such as "Chai 5" [pictured above], and "Chai Maintenance." Perfect for the summer months, and appealing to customers of various ages, these new arrivals allow shoppers to maintain a connection to Judaism while going out in style.
Also available are "Bubbie and Zeyda" and "Shayne Punim" shirts and hats, some decorated with rhinestones. "People love to wear them, they love identifying themselves in a Jewish way, whether they are the bubbie or the zeyda." says store Co-manager Eva Schlanger.
Store managers will be attending craft and buying shows along the east coast in July and August searching for additional Judaica and crafts for the Shop. "Artists are showing a lot of fun objects this year like hats and shirts in addition to the normal Judaica that is always well received," Schlanger continues.
The Museum Shop is open Mondays-Thursdays 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Fridays 10 a.m.-3 p.m., and Sundays 12 noon - 5 p.m.
The Museum Shop carries a wide variety of artists' styles. Visit the Museum Shop to browse the large assortment of items in all price ranges. For more information contact Eva Schlanger, or call the Museum Shop at 215.923.0262.
Proceeds from the Museum Shop support the National Museum of American Jewish History.
4. A SO-CALLED REINVENTION OF JEWISH MUSIC
JDub Artist Returns With Second Album
Living in Montreal, on a street booming with Italian cafes, Hassidic butchers, Polish delis, Chilean chicken shacks, Portuguese and Greek restaurants, and Brazilian coffee shops is Socalled, a musician who, while on this street he hears French, English, Spanish, Yiddish, Greek, Senegalese, and Haitian. These neighborhood sounds and influences are what inspired the JDub recording artist's new album titled, Ghettobuster.
The Museum and JDub are joining together to offer free Ghettobuster CDs to the first three E-newsletter readers to respond to the e-mail address below.
After the release of The Socalled Seder in 2005, Socalled is back with this reinvention of Jewish music through hip-hop. Featuring a combination of rich traditional music and contemporary sounds, the album spans multiple genres from rock, Bulgarian and Latin, to funk, Jewish and jazz while still grounding itself in a hip-hop beat. Time Out New York calls Socalled, "one of the eclectic Jewish music scene's stars."
Ghettoblaster features more than 40 guests and collaborators from renowned artists such as James Brown's trombonist Fred Wesley and Theodore Bikel, to hotshot producer Gonzales, and klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer. They combine to create a sound reminiscent of the past while standing squarely in the present.
To claim one of the three Ghettoblaster CDs, send an email to elliot@jdubrecords.org with your name and address and mention that you are an E-newsletter subscriber. Find out more about Socalled at myspace.com/socalled.
Ghettoblaster, along with all other JDub releases are available in the JDub webstore.
JDub Records is a not-for-profit record and event production company for innovative Jewish music and cross cultural dialogue. JDub produces, presents, and disseminates new and innovative Jewish music, reclaiming music and the arts as a valid and vital method of self expression within Judaism and as a means of bridging religious, ethnic, and cultural boundaries. Some of their other artists include Balkan Beat Box, Golem, and The Leevees.
Visit JDub's website at www.jdubrecords.org
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Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, who established the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Hebrew Union College, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, published on July 15, 1845, the first edition of his weekly English language newspaper, The Israelite, intending it to be a national forum for his opinions on Judaism. Later renamed The American Israelite, the paper remains in publication today, in Cincinnati, Ohio and is the oldest English Jewish weekly in the United States. Now primarily a local newspaper, in its beginning The Israelite was a national organ with broad reach and did much to establish Wise as a leader of American Jewry.
Independence Mall East
55 North 5th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106-2197
Tel: 215.923.3811 Fax: 215.923.0763
www.nmajh.org
Welcome to the electronic newsletter of the National Museum of American Jewish History. This newsletter is designed to keep you informed of exhibitions, programs and other activities of the NMAJH, the only Museum in the country exclusively presenting educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore and celebrate the history of the Jews in America.
___________________________________
1. MUSEUM REACHES $100 MILLION FOR CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
Demolition Begun on Independence Mall Site
The Museum has raised $100 million toward its goal of $150 million for its new home on Independence Mall. At a recent event at New York's Mandarin Oriental Hotel held to thank leadership donors from across the country for helping to reach the milestone, Museum Co-chairman George Ross noted, "many of you in the room tonight have played a key role in the initial success of our campaign. I can't thank you enough for your leadership and generosity in helping to transform our vision into reality."
In particular, Ross thanked Caroline and Sidney Kimmel for their "extraordinary support of numerous medical, educational, and cultural institutions across the United States and beyond."
Sidney Kimmel made a lead gift to the Museum of $25 million in November 2002 when the project was first announced. Demolition of the "KYW Building," at 5th and Market streets, the location of the new museum, began in mid-June with minor interior work.
The new Museum [pictured above], will have 100,000 square feet, with 25,000 square feet devoted to the core exhibition and 5,000 square feet for changing exhibitions. The Museum will have five stories, with a concourse below ground that will house an education center comprised of classrooms, a resource center, and the 200-seat Dell Family Theater.
"I cannot think of a greater legacy to give to our children, grandchildren and future generations than this Museum that will provide the stories of our rich past and will build a bridge to an even richer future," Museum Co-chairman Ron Rubin said at the event.
The Museum is designed by the internationally acclaimed architectural firm Polshek Partnership Architects. The exhibition designers are Gallagher & Associates.
For information on how to support the new Museum, contact Director of Institutional Advancement Irv Hurwitz by phone at 215.923.3811 x 133.
2. FORSHPEIS! WELCOMES YOU DURING WELCOME AMERICA WEEK
Museum to Take Part in July 4th Celebration.
The Museum is taking part in this year's Sunoco Welcome America festival, a week long July 4th celebration featuring a myriad of activities throughout the city. Last year, more than three million people attended the festivities, the theme of which this year is "Celebrate Freedom."
Among the activities offered to visitors is the Museum's exhibition, Forshpeis! A Taste of the Peter H. Schweitzer Collection of Jewish Americana.
Forshpeis! reveals aspects of American Jewish life by looking at food in a range of settings, including in the kitchen and at the deli. Forshpeis! also explores, through the Schweitzer Collection, the role food played in helping immigrant Jews adjust to life in the United States and illustrates how Jewish foods, like American Jews themselves, have become a part of the American mainstream.
On view in the exhibition are a wide range of food related artifacts, from cookbooks and old seltzer bottles, to photographs depicting families around the seder table, and a promotional poster announcing that "You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's real Jewish Rye."
Among the types of events for all ages at the Welcome America festival are concerts, carnivals, movie screenings, and fireworks. To learn more about the Sunoco Welcome America celebration, visit http://www.americasbirthday.com/.
To schedule a visit to the exhibition and Museum, email or call the The Education Department at 215.923.5984. Education Department webpage has more information about programs and booking tours.
The Forshpeis! exhibition was made possible in part through the generous support of the Independence Foundation, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. The Museum receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
3. CHAI FIVE GIVEN TO THE SHOP FOR NEW ITEMS
Beginning this month, the Museum Shop will be featuring new items such as t-shirts and hats showcasing sayings such as "Chai 5" [pictured above], and "Chai Maintenance." Perfect for the summer months, and appealing to customers of various ages, these new arrivals allow shoppers to maintain a connection to Judaism while going out in style.
Also available are "Bubbie and Zeyda" and "Shayne Punim" shirts and hats, some decorated with rhinestones. "People love to wear them, they love identifying themselves in a Jewish way, whether they are the bubbie or the zeyda." says store Co-manager Eva Schlanger.
Store managers will be attending craft and buying shows along the east coast in July and August searching for additional Judaica and crafts for the Shop. "Artists are showing a lot of fun objects this year like hats and shirts in addition to the normal Judaica that is always well received," Schlanger continues.
The Museum Shop is open Mondays-Thursdays 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Fridays 10 a.m.-3 p.m., and Sundays 12 noon - 5 p.m.
The Museum Shop carries a wide variety of artists' styles. Visit the Museum Shop to browse the large assortment of items in all price ranges. For more information contact Eva Schlanger, or call the Museum Shop at 215.923.0262.
Proceeds from the Museum Shop support the National Museum of American Jewish History.
4. A SO-CALLED REINVENTION OF JEWISH MUSIC
JDub Artist Returns With Second Album
Living in Montreal, on a street booming with Italian cafes, Hassidic butchers, Polish delis, Chilean chicken shacks, Portuguese and Greek restaurants, and Brazilian coffee shops is Socalled, a musician who, while on this street he hears French, English, Spanish, Yiddish, Greek, Senegalese, and Haitian. These neighborhood sounds and influences are what inspired the JDub recording artist's new album titled, Ghettobuster.
The Museum and JDub are joining together to offer free Ghettobuster CDs to the first three E-newsletter readers to respond to the e-mail address below.
After the release of The Socalled Seder in 2005, Socalled is back with this reinvention of Jewish music through hip-hop. Featuring a combination of rich traditional music and contemporary sounds, the album spans multiple genres from rock, Bulgarian and Latin, to funk, Jewish and jazz while still grounding itself in a hip-hop beat. Time Out New York calls Socalled, "one of the eclectic Jewish music scene's stars."
Ghettoblaster features more than 40 guests and collaborators from renowned artists such as James Brown's trombonist Fred Wesley and Theodore Bikel, to hotshot producer Gonzales, and klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer. They combine to create a sound reminiscent of the past while standing squarely in the present.
To claim one of the three Ghettoblaster CDs, send an email to elliot@jdubrecords.org with your name and address and mention that you are an E-newsletter subscriber. Find out more about Socalled at myspace.com/socalled.
Ghettoblaster, along with all other JDub releases are available in the JDub webstore.
JDub Records is a not-for-profit record and event production company for innovative Jewish music and cross cultural dialogue. JDub produces, presents, and disseminates new and innovative Jewish music, reclaiming music and the arts as a valid and vital method of self expression within Judaism and as a means of bridging religious, ethnic, and cultural boundaries. Some of their other artists include Balkan Beat Box, Golem, and The Leevees.
Visit JDub's website at www.jdubrecords.org
___________________________________
Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, who established the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Hebrew Union College, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, published on July 15, 1845, the first edition of his weekly English language newspaper, The Israelite, intending it to be a national forum for his opinions on Judaism. Later renamed The American Israelite, the paper remains in publication today, in Cincinnati, Ohio and is the oldest English Jewish weekly in the United States. Now primarily a local newspaper, in its beginning The Israelite was a national organ with broad reach and did much to establish Wise as a leader of American Jewry.
Independence Mall East
55 North 5th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106-2197
Tel: 215.923.3811 Fax: 215.923.0763
www.nmajh.org
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