Past Exhibitions


2011

Lex Mrocki - Seen and Unseen
Intuit - Sculptures by Tzvia Aran-Shapir


2010

Theresienstadt: Drawn from the Inside - Works from the Jewish Museum of Australia Collection


2009

Women in the Bible: Tricksters, Victors and (M)others
Superheroes & Schlemiels: Jews & Comic Art
Speaking for the Ordinary Man: Charles Aisen: tinsmith, socialist, folk artist


2008

Victor Majzner: Painting the Torah
Bal Tashchit: "Thou shall not Destroy" Environmental Apocalypse and the Hebrew Bible
NEW UNDER THE SUN: Australian Contemporary Design in Jewish Ceremony III*


2007

Everything but the Family - Stories of South African Jewish Australians
DIASPORA: Homelands in Exile Photographs by Frederic Brenner


2006

Death Burial and Beyond
Marking the Stranger -Shirley Cass/ Ha'Makom A Special Place Bill Meyer
J'accuse! The Dreyfus Affair
Where The Wild Things Are -Maurice Sendak in his own words
Heavens - Installation by Asher Bilu


2005

Intersections - reading the space - Christianity, Judaism & Islam
The Photographs of Diane Arbus


2004

Art Spiegelman: MAUS
An Old Song in a New Land
Past Presence


2003

Under the Covers: Love Sex and Intimacy in Jewish Life
To Market To Market: A Family Visit to Ancient Jerusalem
Observances photographs by Emmanuel Santos


2002

Yarns: Jewish stories from emerging artists.
On the seventh day... The sabbath in Jewish Tradition
Salt & Honey an insallation by Lauren Berkowitz
atonement...A photographic installation by Chris Barry
From Russia with Hope: Russian Jews in Australia 1870-2002


2001

Schmatte Business - Jews in the Garment Trade
Visits to Holy Spaces by Jean-Jacques Rullier - presented by the Melbourne Festival 2001
Bagel Belt: The Jews of St Kilda & Caulfield


2000

Art and Kabbalah: Contemporary Responses to an Ancient Tradition
The Romance of Judaica
LINEAGE - The Architecture of Daniel Libeskind


1999

People of the Precious Legacy - Australian Jews from Czechoslovakia
Blessed Be The Work - Australian Contemporary Design in Jewish Ceremony II Moses


1998

Heather Ellyard commentaries: In Another Language
I am my Brother's Keeper - Jewish Community Services
Haimish
Circles & Cycles: The Australian Jewish Family


1997

Jerusalem 3000
Material Treasures: Textiles from the Jewish Museum of Australia Collection
Louis Kahan; A Portrait
Souvenir 1987-97 by Andrew Cooks
The Story of a Haven: the Jews in Shanghai
Suzon Fuks Keeping the Light
Your Name & Ultima by Sue Saxon


1996

The Moveable Feast: A Celebration of Jewish Food
Art & Remembrance: Addressing the Holocaust


1995

Chagall & the Bible in Australian Collections
In the Footsteps of Monash - Jews in the Australian Armed Forces in World War 11
The Wandering Jew: Myth & Metaphor *


1993

The Australian Haggadah *
The Golem
Sephardim: The Jews from Spain
Jewels & Ashes: Photographs & Reflections of a Polish Journey by Arnold Zable *


1992

Bridging Two Worlds: The Jews & Italians of Carlton
Courage to Care: The Righteous Gentiles
Melbourne Hebrew Congregation - 150 Years


1991

The Dunera Experience
Jews of Ethiopia: Impressions of a Visit
Blessed is the Fruit of the Earth: Plants in the Bible
Australian Contemporary Design in Jewish Ceremony *


1990

From our Collection: Recent Acquisitions
Freud & Friends: The Jews of Vienna*
Bergasse 1938: Sygmund Freud
Witnesses in the Anteroom to Hell: The Theresienstadt Drawings of Paul Schwarz & Leo Lowit *


1989

Miles Evergood retrospective
Women of Worth: Women in Jewish History & Religion
Image & Identity: Five Australian Artists


1988

Horace Brodsky Retrospective*
The Torah
Gefilte Fish on the Barbie: The Art of Australian Jewish Children
Jewish Life in Australia today


1987

Kafka-Prague (from Beth Hatefutsoth, Tel Aviv).
Moshe Zabari & the Art of Jewish Ritual Silver
Margaret Michaelis-Sachs Jews of Many Lands


1986

The Jewish Marriage
David Rankin: The Auschwitz Poems
Archaeology of Ancient Israel


1985

Art & Entertainment: Jews in Victoria 1835 - 1985
Diversity & Development: Jews in Public Life in Victoria 1835 - 1985
The Eternal Flame


1984

Purim & Pesach: Festivals of Freedom
Birth of the Modern Jew: Jews in Germany 1750 - 1920
Selections from the Permanent Collection
Arrival & Survival: Jews in Victoria 1835 -1985


1983

Shtetl Life
Music in Ancient Israel


1982

Art & Architecture of the Synagogue



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