At the Jewish Museum-FIU: Please join us for a conversation with Ira Giller and his daughter Sara Giller Nelson on Thursday, June 16th at 7:00pm. Ira and Sara will discuss the life and work of Norman Giller one of the founders of Miami Modern (MiMo), a regionalized style of Modernist architecture. The program is presented […]
At the Jewish Museum-FIU: Please join us for the screening of Aaron Davidson's documentary films: Abraham’s Bakery, Rascal House, and Tradition at Steak. Davidson's documentary films on Jewish themes have all been made in South Florida, but transcend their local flavor and are at once familiar and nostalgic. A hallmark of his work is a […]
Join expert tour guide and Treasurer of the Miami Design Preservation League Joel Levine as he reconstructs the fascinating history of Sunny Isles Beach. Using vibrant postcards, price lists, and other precious archival material and videos, Levine will time travel from the original 1920 purchase of the town by Harvey Baker Graves to the post-WWII period of […]
A special chamber music concert performed by the Amernet String Quartet, FIU’s Ensemble-in-Residence, in collaboration with special guests Rachel Calloway, mezzo-soprano, and Yuriy Bekker, violinist. They will perform works of Mozart, Loeffler, and Robert X. Rodriguez. This is part of a series of concerts called Vivid Viola Concerts sponsored from a grant from city of Miami Beach. Two […]
Please join us for a conversation with Ira Giller and his daughter Sarah Giller Nelson on Thursday, September 15 at 7:00pm. Ira and Sarah will discuss the life and work of Norman M. Giller, one of the founders of Miami Modern (MiMo), a regionalized style of Modernist architecture. This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Giller on Giller: An […]
Heat, humidity, and mosquitos—these are the conditions that inspired the design of 20th-century Florida houses. Features of what came to be known as the "tropical home," such as Florida Rooms and screened patios, were outcomes of a fantastic range of local architectural experiments that persisted even after innovations like air conditioning redefined the relationship between […]
North Beach Social, 3rd Thursdays at the Bandshell, returns for a new season - a free monthly night of music and community, featuring our favorite Miami-based artists. The triumphant return of the Miami-born six-piece band whose music is an amalgam of yacht rock, boogie-funk and wavy synth jazz. The group launched in 2011, ultimately gaining […]
The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU and the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab will present History Harvest: Remembering Our Past to Shape Our Future, scheduled to take place at JMOF-FIU on Sunday, October 23, 2022. From 11AM to 3PM, visitors can help build the museum’s physical and digital collections through donated items, objects, and stories while also […]
Opening reception for Passports for Life with special guest Polish Ambassador Marek Magierowski. The reception will be followed by a presentation with exhibition creator Magdalena Gawin, Director of Pilecki Institute. Gawin will present her research tracking German Nazi war criminals who actively participated in Holocaust and after WWII changed names and almost escaped justice.
On view May 19, 2022 - October 2022 at the Jewish Museum-FIU Norman Giller was one of the founders of Miami Modern (MiMo), a regionalized style of Modernist architecture. Through the use of new materials and technology, he was able to realize his ideas in a post-war II booming Florida. Giller’s body of work includes […]
In The Kindness of One, photographer Margaret Lansink and poet René van Hulst contemplate the great potential within a single person’s act of kindness. The couple was inspired by events in 1940, during World War II, in which thousands of Jewish people were trapped in Kaunas, Lithuania between the advancing German troops and the Russian army […]
LA ALEGRÍA DE VIVIR: A Moment in Venezuelan Jewish Life is a series of colorful paintings by Silvia Cohen inspired by life in Venezuela in the 50’s and 60’s. Cohen chose unique moments from her own story and those of family and friends to illustrate Venezuela’s vibrant Jewish community. The exhibition will be on view thru February […]
Celebrate the season with a festive FIU family day hosted by The Wolfsonian and the Jewish Museum of Florida! Learn basic origami-folding techniques to create colorful paper mobiles with Miami-based artist Lauren Shapiro, and stick around for holiday treats and Klezmer beats by Heavy Shtetl. Presented in partnership with the Jewish Museum of Florida. Discovering […]
November 16, 2022 – March 26, 2023 Lady Liberty will feature more than 20 works by Bonnie Lautenberg, spanning her artistic career, including photographs she took in Antarctica, Palm Beach, Cuba and New York, alongside her conceptual artworks. The exhibition is titled Lady Liberty in honor of the role women have played in championing freedom and will also include […]
November 27, 2022 – April 2023 Fragile Beauty explores the powerful allure of nature alongside its delicate state today. Featuring site-specific installations by Beatriz Chachamovits, Mira Lehr, and Lauren Shapiro, the exhibition brings together works by local Miami artists that reflect on climate change and human impact on our oceans, coral reefs, and rapidly shifting environment. Working across installation and […]
May 10, 2023 - August 6, 2023 Upon Thy Gates, The Elaine K. and Norman Winik Mezuzah Collection arrives at JMOF-FIU from the Oregon Museum of the Jewish People and Center for Holocaust Education in Portland on May 10, 2023. Curated by Kenneth Helphand, the exhibition presents 73 mezuzahs collected by the Winiks that represent […]
May 19, 2023 - October 8, 2023 Arnold Newman: A Retrospective looks at his photographic portraits from the 1940s to the early 2000s. Throughout his career, Newman photographed many Jewish public figures who have made a significant impact in their respective fields including artists, entertainers, scientists, philosophers and politicians. Arnold Newman was one of the world’s most prolific, […]
August 16 – January 7, 2024 Seeing Torah The quilt exhibition by Anita Rabinoff-Goldman is a stunning artistic interpretation of a verse from each of the Torah’s 54 portions done with fabric. The small quilts are a visual commentary illuminating the spiritual, political, and feminist lessons of the 54 portions of the Torah that personally resonated with her […]
Raymond Elman: The Portraits October 22– March 3, 2024 Raymond Elman documented his life in the Outer Cape Cod art colony of Provincetown, Truro, and Wellfleet, from 1970 to the present, by making large-scale, mixed-media portraits of the many impactful artists and writers that had befriended him when he was still in his twenties (and […]
December 22 – March 10, 2024 For 50 years before Miami grew into the renowned art mecca it is today, Zena Posever pioneered as an artist, teacher, and activist residing on Miami Beach. The sculptures and paintings in this exhibit are a sample of her wide-ranging career in the visual arts.
Monday, March 25 at 7:00pm to 9:00pm Jewish Museum of Florida 301 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33199 United States The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU invites you to its upcoming lecture Jews and China: Dr. Xun Zhou. In this talk Dr. Xun Zhou will present an overview of the global history of Chinese and Jewish encounters, from the […]
Tuesday, March 26 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm Virtual Event In tribute to Women’s History Month, Marcia Jo Zerivitz, LHD, Founding Executive Director of the Jewish Museum of Florida–FIU will present a PowerPoint lecture that tells stories of outstanding women in Florida Jewish history. In 60 minutes, you will “meet” Florida Jewish women who made history in […]
Monday, April 8 at 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm Jewish Museum of Florida 301 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33199 Operation Moses was the covert rescue of more than 10,000 Beta Israel – the Ethiopian Jews – from the 1984 famine and civil war. Thousands of members of this community, who lived for centuries in the […]
Tuesday, April 9th at 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Virtual Event We can agree that Jewish life since October 7, 2023, is no longer the same. Antisemitism has ginormously increased here in the US and globally and has become normalized, especially on college campuses, and mostly based on conspiracy theories. Florida hosts the nation’s second-largest number […]
Monday, April 15th at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Jewish Museum of Florida 301 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33199 United States The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU invites you to its upcoming lecture Jews and India: Professor Nathan Katz. Jews have lived in India for two thousand years and have exerted a surprising influence over this vast […]
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