Through a Jewish Lens brings together works by Angela Lynkushka, Sue Saxon and Anne Zahalka. Drawn from the Jewish Museum of Australia Collection, the exhibition reflects on the experiences of Jewish refugees and migrants who rebuilt their lives in Australia after the second world war.

Presented alongside ZAHALKAWORLD: an artist’s archive, the exhibition offers a complementary perspective on themes of family history, identity and belonging.

Displaced Persons (2003), a collaborative work by Sue Saxon and Anne Zahalka, traces their families’ journeys from Europe to Australia in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Layering photographs and personal documents onto delicate handkerchiefs, the work evokes both the fragility of memory and the uncertainty of exile.

Complementing this piece is a selection of portraits from Angela Lynkushka’s significant body of work documenting Melbourne’s Jewish community between 1988 and 2007. Over two decades Lynkushka captured the diversity, tenacity and vitality of post-war Jewish life in Melbourne as it absorbed new waves of migration.

Together, these works explore the intersections of European heritage and Jewish-Australian identity.