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Traveling Exhibitions
Exhibitions available to borrow or rent from our member institutions across North America, as well as select exhibitions thar have been presented at CAJM institutions but which have been produced by independent curators or non-CAJM museums(*).
Art (open)
- Cultural Alarm: Tamar Hirschl
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
- Large scale paintings alert viewers to the dangers of human and environmental destruction through personal memories of war and displacement in Croatia and Israel.
Space Required: 80 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- El Viaje ... The Journey: Latin American Jewish Artists and Poets
- JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA
Miami Beach, FL
United States of America 
- The exhibit presents 18 Jewish artists from 10 Latin American countries (Mexico, Cuba, Costa Rica, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela). With 18 Jewish poets they have created an interesting group of art works and poems inspired by the theme of journey: sensitive testimonies that overlap local references of their countries, personal memories, social facts and Jewish symbolism.
Space Requirements: 83 linear feet
Rental Fee: $4,000 for 3 months plus shipping
Security: Medium. Evidence of $15,000 insurance coverage required.
Contact: Marcia Zerivitz, Founding Executive Director & Chief Curator, mzerivitz@jewishmuseum.com or (305) 672-5044 ext. 3180.
- Eye of the Collector: The Jewish Vision of Sigmund Balka
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
- An encyclopedic survey of the major European and American Jewish artists and themes in 19th and 20th century art, in paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs. (2 versions of show with either 112 or 46 works)
Space Required: 120-300 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- Proverbs for a New World: Ora Lerman
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
- Paintings and drawings depicting narratives from the artist's family heritage, classic literature, and global travels.
Space Required: 70 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: High
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- PsalmSong: Carol Hamoy
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
- A meditative, environmental installation, dedicated to the healing professions, is inspired by the ten psalms deemed by Rabbi Nachman to promote healing and by Kabbalah's mystical illumination of the connections between the divine and human worlds.
Space Required: 800-1000 square feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- The Art of Aging
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
- Contemporary art depicting the process of aging, through the lens of Jewish values, as a remarkable opportunity for continued creative growth.
Space Required: 150 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- The Art of Hatred: Images of Intolerance
- JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA
Miami Beach, FL
United States of America 
- From ancient and medieval times to the present use of the internet, grotesque and cruel visual representations of Jewish people and others have stoked the flames of intolerance. This exhibit focuses on the effective use of graphics and imagery over the centuries to foster bigotry and social division. Its goal is to show the origins and mutation of these hateful images and to sensitize viewers to the continued use of propaganda.
Space Required: Approximately 209 linear feet
Rental Fee: $5,000 for 3 months plus shipping
Security: High. Evidence of $96,000 insurance coverage required.
Contact: Marcia Zerivitz, Founding Executive Director, (305) 672-5044 ext. 3180
- The Elements of Alchemy: Paul Weissman
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
- Inspired by Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, Weissman incorporates employs eponymous elements and metaphorical imagery to examine humankind's relationship to the basic building blocks of the universe
Space Required: 40 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- The Jewish Graphic Novel
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
- Action-filled and suspenseful, the Jewish themes of anti-Semitism, Holocaust, belief, and survival are combined with powerful graphic images in this significant literary genre.
Space required: 600 square feet
Rental fee: $100
Security: Low
Contact: Laura Kruger,lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205.
- The Jonah Story: David Wander
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
A 13-panel, 50-foot long drawing depicting the complete story of the biblical Jonah. Wander's fresco-style work on paper pays homage to the entire while adding personal interpretations. Wander is a renowned book artist, who works in an "accordion style" book format, each unique. He has illustrated manuscripts of religious texts and created posters for Broadway plays. He works extensively in pastel as well as in oil and watercolor with a palette that enhances the spirituality and intensity of his subjects.
Space Required: 60 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- The L.A. Story
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
- Ten contemporary Los Angeles-based Jewish artists investigate the impact of place and the search for artistic community on the creativity of artists who share a religious, cultural, and spiritual heritage.
Space Required: 135 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- The Lost Synagogues of Europe
- ANDREA STRONGWATER
Andrea Strongwater, andrea@astrongwater.com 
- Collection of 120 paintings re-creating eighty synagogues across Europe that were destroyed during the Third Reich, based upon archival photographs. Any number of paintings available for exhibition. All synagogues are represented with exterior views, some with additional interior views. Each painting is framed and matted at 11"x14" or 8"x10" size (mix of vertical and horizontal). Artwork can be hung grouped in one or two rows. Book scheduled for publication July 2011. Art is available for sale with commission to exhibiting institution. Photos of other installations on request.
Rental Fee: relative to number of works exhibited.
(65 artworks $1500 plus return shipping)Space Required: 15' to 150' linear feet.
Security: Low
- The Whole Megillah: David Wander
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
- David Wander's complete Megillat Esther is an accordion book, measuring 55 feet when fully extended, in which Wander has rendered and inscribed contemporary and ancient interpretations of the story of Purim.
Space Required: 70 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust
- MAGNES MUSEUM, JUDAH L.
2911 Russell Street
Berkeley, CA
United States of America 
The renowned anthropologist and Yiddish folklorist Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett interviewed her father Mayer for forty years. She and her family encouraged him to begin painting what he remembered. The result, 60 acrylic on canvas paintings, recalls a lost world in exquisite detail and with extraordinary completeness.
Space Required: 2500-3000 linear feet
Rental Fee: $15,000
Security: MediumContact: Faith Powell, fpowell@magnes.org, (510) 549-6950 x333
- Tikkun: Aliza Olmert
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
- Conceptual photographs based on fragile constructions of broken egg shells convey the vulnerability of exhistence, obstacles to survival, and the imperative to sustain life. Tikkun, the Jewish charge to heal the world, is expressed through the mending of the shattered fragments.
Space Required: 145 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security:: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- Zap! Pow! Bam! The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books 1938-1950
- BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM, THE WILLIAM
1440 Spring Street NW
Atlanta, GA
United States of America 
The exhibit immerses visitors in an interactive world of Super Heroes and illuminates the creative processes of their originators. features 1940s serials, video interviews, a vintage child-size Bat mobile ride, interactive phone booth, a drawing studio, and costumes. Comes with installation and de-installation supervisor, catalogues, and rights to show serials.
Space Required: 2,800 sf
Rental Fee: $45,000 for 4 months, plus one-way shipping.
Security: Medium
History & Community (open)
- 350 Years of Jewish Service in the American Military
- NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH MILITARY HISTORY
1811 R Street, NW
Washington, DC
United States of America 
- A-V (PowerPoint) presentation. Purchase price: $100.
- Albanian Muslim Rescuers During the Holocaust: Photographs by Norman Gershman
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
Photographs and personal stories of Albanian Muslim families who sheltered and saved Jewish during World War II.
Space Required: 140 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- An American, A Sailor, and a Jew: The Life and Career of Commodore Uriah P. Levy, USN
- NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH MILITARY HISTORY
1811 R Street, NW
Washington, DC
United States of America The National Museum of American Jewish Military History often creates portable versions of the exhibits on display in the Museum galleries. This one includes 11 panels: 20" x 30" black foam-core, quarter-inch sheets with laminated black and white images.
- Bagels and Grits: Jewish Life in the Deep South
- INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE
P.O. Box 16528
Jackson, MS
United States of America 
Bagels and Grits: Jewish Life in the Deep South, the result of photographer Bill Aron's 14-year odyssey through the Southern states, depicts Jewish life in a series of images and text panels.
Space Required: Approximately 78-1/4 linear feet
Rental Fee: $1,500 plus shipping
Security: Minimal
Contact: Kate Lubarsky, klubarsky@isjl.org, (601) 362-6357.
- Bergen-Belsen Revisited: Photographic Memoir of Colonel Charles Curtis Mitchell
- BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM, THE WILLIAM
1440 Spring Street NW
Atlanta, GA
United States of America 
Colonial Mitchell served as the Director of the U.S. Army's Pictorial Branch during WWII. This eye-opening exhibition documents the first days of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp for "...those not present as eyewitnesses, because such inhumanity would be beyond belief."
Space Required: 1,000 sf
Rental Fee: $1,500 for 4 months, plus one-way shipping.
Security: Medium
- Bonim: Jewish Developers Building Florida & Building Community.
- JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA
Miami Beach, FL
United States of America 
Since the 1820s, Jews have played a major role in transforming Florida from the South's least populated state into one of the nation's largest. Bonim portrays approximately 120 Jewish owners, builders, designers, financiers, or civic officials responsible for resorts, hotels, homes, hospitals, shopping malls, airports, highways, and bridges.. The exhibit is presented geographically on a large-scale floor map of Florida, with intersecting vertical panels.
Space Required: 22 feet by 32 feet and 120 linear feet.
Rental fee: $5,000 for 3 months, plus one-way shipping
Security: Medium. Evidence of $100,000 insurance coverage required
- Candid Moments in the Military
- NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH MILITARY HISTORY
1811 R Street, NW
Washington, DC
United States of America The National Museum of American Jewish Military History often creates portable versions of the exhibits on display in the Museum galleries. This exhibition includes five panels, 20" x 30" black foam-core, quarter-inch sheets with laminated black and white images.
- Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
- UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC
United States of America 
- Objects, photographs, documents, and historic film footage evoke medical and scientific environments. The exhibition of 31 free-standing panels and 8 A-V units provokes reflection on the attraction of biological utopias promoting the possibility of human perfection -- from early twentieth-century international eugenics movements to present-day dreams of eliminating inherited disabilities through genetic manipulation.
Space Required: 2,000 square feet
Rental Fee: $2,500; transport to next venue
Security: Locked exhibition space, staffed during open hours
- Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings
- UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC
United States of America 
For Americans, the iconography of Nazism is found in the swastika, jackboot, and Nazi banner. But another symbol accompanied the Third Reich: In January 1933, torchlight parades announced the onset of the Nazi revolution; a month later, the Reichstag fire consumed the last vestiges of the Weimar Constitution. In May, German university students launched an "Action Against the Un-German Spirit" targeting authors such as Helen Keller, Ernest Hemingway and Sigmund Freud. The exhibition of 60 free-standing panels with interaction and A-V components explores how the book burnings became a potent symbol in America's battle against Nazism.
Space Required: 800-1,200 square feet
Rental Fee: $600; transport to next venue
Security: Locked exhibition space, staffed during open hours
- GIs Remember: Liberating the Concentration Camps
- NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH MILITARY HISTORY
1811 R Street, NW
Washington, DC
United States of America The National Museum of American Jewish Military History often creates portable versions of the exhibits on display in the Museum galleries. This exhibition consists of 16 panels, 20" x 30" black foam-core, quarter-inch sheets with laminated black and white images.
- Hall of Heroes: American Jewish Recipients of the Medal of Honor
- NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH MILITARY HISTORY
1811 R Street, NW
Washington, DC
United States of America The National Museum of American Jewish Military History often creates portable versions of the exhibits on display in the Museum galleries. This exhibition includes 4 panels: 20" x 30" black foam-core, quarter-inch sheets with laminated black and white images.
- Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights
- JILL VEXLER (*)
Tel: 212-505-6426 or jill@jillvexler.com 
Helen Suzman was one of South Africa's most vociferous and energetic opponents of apartheid. From 1961-1974 she was the only MP from the Progressive Party, and her tenacious fight for human rights led to a great friendship with Nelson Mandela. Twenty-nine (29) 20"x50" panels, which can be installed free standing or wall-mounted.
Space Required:Approximately 100 running feet.
Rental Fee: $1,000 per month plus flat shipping rate of $750.
Security: Insurance on premises and during shipping to subsequent venue
- Jewish Photographic Memories by Gabriela Landau
- JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA
Marcia Zerivitz, Founding Executive Director (305) 672-5044 
- When Gabriela Landau wandered the streets of New York in the 1950s and ‘60s, her camera focused on a particular and favorite subject: the Lower East Side and its corner delis, street vendors, busy pedestrians, piles of pretzels and handwritten Yiddish signs. Exhibit includes 29 framed 11"x14" photographs and 3 text panels.
Space Required: 80 linear feet
Rental Fee: $2,500 for 3 months plus shipping
Security: Medium. Evidence of $100,000 insurance coverage.
- Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps
- JILL VEXLER
Tel: 212-505-6426 or jill@jillvexler.com 
- The exhibition is based on a compelling collection of rare Holocaust-era letters and photographs, saved at great personal risk by Sala Garncarz from the time she entered her first of seven Nazi labor camps in 1940 until her liberation in 1945. Exhibition components are packed in one 629-lb crate: 62" x 42" x 62." Available through December 2012.
Space Required: 850-1200 sq. ft., 70-85 linear ft.
Rental Fee: $1,000 per month (multiple months discounted), plus shipping.
Security: Insurance while on premises and during shipping
- Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945
- UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC
United States of America 
As part of its effort to create a "master Aryan race," the Nazi government persecuted many different groups, including Germany's homosexual men. Believing them to be carriers of a "degeneracy," the Nazi state incarcerated in prisons and concentration camps tens of thousands of men as a means of terrorizing them into social conformity. Includes reproductions of some 250 historic photographs and documents.
Space Required: 1,500 square feet
Rental Fee: $1,000; transport to next venue
- Rebirth After the Holocaust: The Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp, 1945-1950
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
- Photographs, documents, and artifacts depict how the largest DP camp in liberated Germany, a self-governed Jewish community, established political, cultural, religious, educational, and social activities that renewed Jewish life and played a significant role in the struggle to establish the State of Israel.
Space Required: 1000-1500 square feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Low
Contact: Jean Bloch Rosensaft, jrosensaft@huc.edu, (212) 924-2209.
- Rescue & Renewal: GIs and Displaced Persons
- NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH MILITARY HISTORY
1811 R Street, NW
Washington, DC
United States of America The National Museum of American Jewish Military History often creates portable versions of the exhibits on display in the Museum galleries. This exhibition includes 6 panels: 20" x 30" black foam-core, quarter-inch sheets with laminated black and white images.
- Salute to Jewish Military Chaplains
- NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH MILITARY HISTORY
1811 R Street, NW
Washington, DC
United States of America The National Museum of American Jewish Military History often creates portable versions of the exhibits on display in the Museum galleries. This exhibition includes 5 panels: 20" x 30" black foam-core, quarter-inch sheets with laminated black and white images.
- Scattered Among the Nations: Jewish Communities of India, China, Zimbabwe Peru & Uzbekistan
- BERNARD MUSEUM OF JUDAICA AT TEMPLE EMANU-EL
One East 65th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
Challenging stereotypes of the Jewish people, the exhibit portrays six communities whose populations share the outward appearance and lifestyles of the people who surround them, with one major difference: they are practicing Jews. Exhibit includes 35 framed photographs, labels, 7 text panels, and accompanying a/v slide exhibition.
Space Required: 1400 linear feet
Rental Fee: To be determined
Security: Medium
Contact: Elka Deitsch, edeitsch@emanuelnyc.org, (212) 744-1400 x259
- Seeking Justice: The Leo Frank Case Revisited
- BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM, THE WILLIAM
1440 Spring Street NW
Atlanta, GA
United States of America 
The exhibit recounts the racially charged and tragic events surrounding the murder of Mary Phagan in 1913 and the lynching of Leo Frank two years later. Includes catalogues, teachers guide, docent training materials, press materials, final art and audio tour
Space Required: 2,800 or 2,000 sf.
Rental Fee: Full or smaller version - $45,000 or $32,000 for 4 months, plus one-way shipping.
Security: High.
- The Art of Hatred: Images of Intolerance
- JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA
Miami Beach, FL
United States of America - From ancient and medieval times to the present use of the internet, grotesque and cruel visual representations of Jewish people and others have stoked the flames of intolerance. This exhibit focuses on the effective use of graphics and imagery over the centuries to foster bigotry and social division. Its goal is to show the origins and mutation of these hateful images and to sensitize viewers to the continued use of propaganda.
Space Required: Approximately 209 linear feet
Rental Fee: $5,000 for 3 months plus shipping
Security: High. Evidence of $96,000 insurance coverage required.
Contact: Marcia Zerivitz, Founding Executive Director, (305) 672-5044 ext. 3180
- The Lost Synagogues of Europe
- ANDREA STRONGWATER
Andrea Strongwater, andrea@astrongwater.com - Collection of 120 paintings re-creating eighty synagogues across Europe that were destroyed during the Third Reich, based upon archival photographs. Any number of paintings available for exhibition. All synagogues are represented with exterior views, some with additional interior views. Each painting is framed and matted at 11"x14" or 8"x10" size (mix of vertical and horizontal). Artwork can be hung grouped in one or two rows. Book scheduled for publication July 2011. Art is available for sale with commission to exhibiting institution. Photos of other installations on request.
Rental Fee: relative to number of works exhibited.
(65 artworks $1500 plus return shipping)Space Required: 15' to 150' linear feet.
Security: Low
- The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936
- UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC
United States of America 
- This exhibition explores the ways in which the Nazis used the Games successfully for military training, pageantry, and propaganda. Ninety-eight exhibit elements and 4 A-V station address some of the controversy surrounding the Games and explores the stories of individual athletes who were barred from competition because of their ethnic or racial heritage, who chose to boycott and forfeit their chance of individual glory, or who - like Jesse Owens - won medals and put the lie to Nazi racial beliefs.
Space Required: 4,000 square foot, 11' ceilings
Rental Fee: $10,000; transport to next venue
- They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust
- MAGNES MUSEUM, JUDAH L.
2911 Russell Street
Berkeley, CA
United States of America The renowned anthropologist and Yiddish folklorist Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett interviewed her father Mayer for forty years. She and her family encouraged him to begin painting what he remembered. The result, 60 acrylic on canvas paintings, recalls a lost world in exquisite detail and with extraordinary completeness.
Space Required: 2500-3000 linear feet
Rental Fee: $15,000
Security: MediumContact: Faith Powell, fpowell@magnes.org, (510) 549-6950 x333
- Varian Fry: Assignment Rescue 1940-1941
- UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC
United States of America This story, told with 32 wall-hung panels, chronicles Varian Fry's heroic efforts to help political and intellectual refugees escape Nazi-controlled Vichy France in 1940 and 1941. Through his work with the Emergency Rescue Committee's and his own clandestine operation, many artists, writers, philosophers, and their families - Jews and non-Jews alike - were spirited away to safety. By the time the French expelled Fry in September 1941, he and his colleagues had managed to save some 2,000 refugees, including Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Arendt, and Andre Breton.
Space Required: 80 linear feet
Rental Fee: $900; transport to next venue
- Waldsee - 1944
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
- International artists have created their own visual symbolism in the size and form of the original postcards to commemorate the annihilation of Hungarian Jewry during the summer of 1944, when Jews deported to their deaths at Auschwitz were required to write deceptive postcards to their families.
Space Required: 50 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- With Stone Shoes: An Ethiopian Jewish Journey
Hands-on exploration of Ethiopian Jews’ life in Ethiopia and their struggle through the Sudan to Israel. Includes rare footage of Operation Moses. All facets of this exhibit are interactive.
Space Required: 1500–2000 square feet
Rental Fee: $10,000-$15,000
Security: Mid - high
Contact: Wendy Sadler, Shalom Street, Director (248) 432-5454
- Women in the Military: A Jewish Perspective
- NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH MILITARY HISTORY
1811 R Street, NW
Washington, DC
United States of America The National Museum of American Jewish Military History often creates portable versions of the exhibits on display in the Museum galleries. This exhibition includes 18 panels: 20" x 30" black foam-core, quarter-inch sheets with laminated black and white images .
Holocaust (open)
- Albanian Muslim Rescuers During the Holocaust: Photographs by Norman Gershman
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America Photographs and personal stories of Albanian Muslim families who sheltered and saved Jewish during World War II.
Space Required: 140 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- Bergen-Belsen Revisited: Photographic Memoir of Colonel Charles Curtis Mitchell
- BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM, THE WILLIAM
1440 Spring Street NW
Atlanta, GA
United States of America Colonial Mitchell served as the Director of the U.S. Army's Pictorial Branch during WWII. This eye-opening exhibition documents the first days of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp for "...those not present as eyewitnesses, because such inhumanity would be beyond belief."
Space Required: 1,000 sf
Rental Fee: $1,500 for 4 months, plus one-way shipping.
Security: Medium
- Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
- UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC
United States of America - Objects, photographs, documents, and historic film footage evoke medical and scientific environments. The exhibition of 31 free-standing panels and 8 A-V units provokes reflection on the attraction of biological utopias promoting the possibility of human perfection -- from early twentieth-century international eugenics movements to present-day dreams of eliminating inherited disabilities through genetic manipulation.
Space Required: 2,000 square feet
Rental Fee: $2,500; transport to next venue
Security: Locked exhibition space, staffed during open hours
- Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings
- UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC
United States of America For Americans, the iconography of Nazism is found in the swastika, jackboot, and Nazi banner. But another symbol accompanied the Third Reich: In January 1933, torchlight parades announced the onset of the Nazi revolution; a month later, the Reichstag fire consumed the last vestiges of the Weimar Constitution. In May, German university students launched an "Action Against the Un-German Spirit" targeting authors such as Helen Keller, Ernest Hemingway and Sigmund Freud. The exhibition of 60 free-standing panels with interaction and A-V components explores how the book burnings became a potent symbol in America's battle against Nazism.
Space Required: 800-1,200 square feet
Rental Fee: $600; transport to next venue
Security: Locked exhibition space, staffed during open hours
- Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps
- JILL VEXLER
Tel: 212-505-6426 or jill@jillvexler.com - The exhibition is based on a compelling collection of rare Holocaust-era letters and photographs, saved at great personal risk by Sala Garncarz from the time she entered her first of seven Nazi labor camps in 1940 until her liberation in 1945. Exhibition components are packed in one 629-lb crate: 62" x 42" x 62." Available through December 2012.
Space Required: 850-1200 sq. ft., 70-85 linear ft.
Rental Fee: $1,000 per month (multiple months discounted), plus shipping.
Security: Insurance while on premises and during shipping
- Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945
- UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC
United States of America As part of its effort to create a "master Aryan race," the Nazi government persecuted many different groups, including Germany's homosexual men. Believing them to be carriers of a "degeneracy," the Nazi state incarcerated in prisons and concentration camps tens of thousands of men as a means of terrorizing them into social conformity. Includes reproductions of some 250 historic photographs and documents.
Space Required: 1,500 square feet
Rental Fee: $1,000; transport to next venue
- Rebirth After the Holocaust: The Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp, 1945-1950
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America - Photographs, documents, and artifacts depict how the largest DP camp in liberated Germany, a self-governed Jewish community, established political, cultural, religious, educational, and social activities that renewed Jewish life and played a significant role in the struggle to establish the State of Israel.
Space Required: 1000-1500 square feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Low
Contact: Jean Bloch Rosensaft, jrosensaft@huc.edu, (212) 924-2209.
- The Lost Synagogues of Europe
- ANDREA STRONGWATER
Andrea Strongwater, andrea@astrongwater.com - Collection of 120 paintings re-creating eighty synagogues across Europe that were destroyed during the Third Reich, based upon archival photographs. Any number of paintings available for exhibition. All synagogues are represented with exterior views, some with additional interior views. Each painting is framed and matted at 11"x14" or 8"x10" size (mix of vertical and horizontal). Artwork can be hung grouped in one or two rows. Book scheduled for publication July 2011. Art is available for sale with commission to exhibiting institution. Photos of other installations on request.
Rental Fee: relative to number of works exhibited.
(65 artworks $1500 plus return shipping)Space Required: 15' to 150' linear feet.
Security: Low
- The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936
- UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC
United States of America - This exhibition explores the ways in which the Nazis used the Games successfully for military training, pageantry, and propaganda. Ninety-eight exhibit elements and 4 A-V station address some of the controversy surrounding the Games and explores the stories of individual athletes who were barred from competition because of their ethnic or racial heritage, who chose to boycott and forfeit their chance of individual glory, or who - like Jesse Owens - won medals and put the lie to Nazi racial beliefs.
Space Required: 4,000 square foot, 11' ceilings
Rental Fee: $10,000; transport to next venue
- Varian Fry: Assignment Rescue 1940-1941
- UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC
United States of America This story, told with 32 wall-hung panels, chronicles Varian Fry's heroic efforts to help political and intellectual refugees escape Nazi-controlled Vichy France in 1940 and 1941. Through his work with the Emergency Rescue Committee's and his own clandestine operation, many artists, writers, philosophers, and their families - Jews and non-Jews alike - were spirited away to safety. By the time the French expelled Fry in September 1941, he and his colleagues had managed to save some 2,000 refugees, including Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Arendt, and Andre Breton.
Space Required: 80 linear feet
Rental Fee: $900; transport to next venue
Installations (open)
- PsalmSong: Carol Hamoy
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America - A meditative, environmental installation, dedicated to the healing professions, is inspired by the ten psalms deemed by Rabbi Nachman to promote healing and by Kabbalah's mystical illumination of the connections between the divine and human worlds.
Space Required: 800-1000 square feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- The Jonah Story: David Wander
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America A 13-panel, 50-foot long drawing depicting the complete story of the biblical Jonah. Wander's fresco-style work on paper pays homage to the entire while adding personal interpretations. Wander is a renowned book artist, who works in an "accordion style" book format, each unique. He has illustrated manuscripts of religious texts and created posters for Broadway plays. He works extensively in pastel as well as in oil and watercolor with a palette that enhances the spirituality and intensity of his subjects.
Space Required: 60 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
Jewish Observance (open)
- Scattered Among the Nations: Jewish Communities of India, China, Zimbabwe Peru & Uzbekistan
- BERNARD MUSEUM OF JUDAICA AT TEMPLE EMANU-EL
One East 65th Street
New York, NY
United States of America Challenging stereotypes of the Jewish people, the exhibit portrays six communities whose populations share the outward appearance and lifestyles of the people who surround them, with one major difference: they are practicing Jews. Exhibit includes 35 framed photographs, labels, 7 text panels, and accompanying a/v slide exhibition.
Space Required: 1400 linear feet
Rental Fee: To be determined
Security: Medium
Contact: Elka Deitsch, edeitsch@emanuelnyc.org, (212) 744-1400 x259
- The Whole Megillah: David Wander
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America - David Wander's complete Megillat Esther is an accordion book, measuring 55 feet when fully extended, in which Wander has rendered and inscribed contemporary and ancient interpretations of the story of Purim.
Space Required: 70 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
Israel (open)
- They Shaped the Fate of the State of Israel
- GOLDSTEIN CULTURAL CENTER, GLADYS AND MURRAY - TEMPLE ISRAEL
1000 Pinebrook Boulevard
New Rochelle, NY
United States of America 
- The Barbara Fix collection of documents and historic originals on Zionism and the founding of the State of Israel is an extensive archive of photos, newspaper articles, maps, and memorabilia which was recently exhibited at Temple Israel. The synagogue museum is now making the exhibition available to other institutions.
Contact: Rabbi Amiel Wohl, rabbiwohl@tinr.org, (914) 235-1800 ext. 218
Life Cycle (open)
- Houses of Life: Jewish Cemeteries of Europe
- BERNARD MUSEUM OF JUDAICA AT TEMPLE EMANU-EL
One East 65th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
- Jewish cemeteries, called "Houses of Life" in Hebrew, remain a vital part of the tapestry of Jewish experience. In Europe, they testify to the changing circumstances, emerging rituals, intense persecution and endless revitalization that accompanied the Jewish migration. In this exhibit, the Bernard Museum of Judaica offers a photographic view of immensely varied Jewish burial grounds across Europe, spanning more than 2,000 years
Space Required: 1500 square feet, with a/v slide exhibitio
Rental Fee: to be determined
Security: Medium
Contact: Elka Deitch, Senior Curator, edeitsch@emanuelnyc.org, (212) 744-1400 x259
- The Art of Aging
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America - Contemporary art depicting the process of aging, through the lens of Jewish values, as a remarkable opportunity for continued creative growth.
Space Required: 150 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
Music & Media (open)
- Cinema Judaica: The Epic Years, 1949-1979
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
- Film posters depict the representation of Jewish history and identity through Biblical epics and films revealing the Holocaust, celebrating the founding of the State of Israel, and exposing anti-Semitism.
Space Required: 100 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- Cinema Judaica: The War Years, 1939-1949
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
- Hollywood posters illustrate how the film industry countered America's isolationism, advocated going to war against the Nazis, and influenced post-war perceptions of Jews and the founding of the State of Israel
Space Required: 100 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- Zap! Pow! Bam! The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books 1938-1950
- BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM, THE WILLIAM
1440 Spring Street NW
Atlanta, GA
United States of America The exhibit immerses visitors in an interactive world of Super Heroes and illuminates the creative processes of their originators. features 1940s serials, video interviews, a vintage child-size Bat mobile ride, interactive phone booth, a drawing studio, and costumes. Comes with installation and de-installation supervisor, catalogues, and rights to show serials.
Space Required: 2,800 sf
Rental Fee: $45,000 for 4 months, plus one-way shipping.
Security: Medium
Paintings (open)
- Cultural Alarm: Tamar Hirschl
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America - Large scale paintings alert viewers to the dangers of human and environmental destruction through personal memories of war and displacement in Croatia and Israel.
Space Required: 80 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- Proverbs for a New World: Ora Lerman
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America - Paintings and drawings depicting narratives from the artist's family heritage, classic literature, and global travels.
Space Required: 70 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: High
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
Performing Arts (open)
- Sholom Aleichem and the Yiddish Theater
- OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM
310 NW Davis Street
Portland, OR
United States of America 
Photographs from the Yiddish Theater of New York in the early 1930s. The exhibit is made up of 31 framed images including photographs of Sholom Aleichem and his family, playbills of theatrical productions.
Space Required: 1,000 square feet
Rental Fee: $1,200 plus shipping
Security: Mimimal
Contact: Anne LeVant Prahl, curator@ojm.org or (503) 226-3600
Photographs (open)
- Albanian Muslim Rescuers During the Holocaust: Photographs by Norman Gershman
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America Photographs and personal stories of Albanian Muslim families who sheltered and saved Jewish during World War II.
Space Required: 140 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- Bergen-Belsen Revisited: Photographic Memoir of Colonel Charles Curtis Mitchell
- BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM, THE WILLIAM
1440 Spring Street NW
Atlanta, GA
United States of America Colonial Mitchell served as the Director of the U.S. Army's Pictorial Branch during WWII. This eye-opening exhibition documents the first days of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp for "...those not present as eyewitnesses, because such inhumanity would be beyond belief."
Space Required: 1,000 sf
Rental Fee: $1,500 for 4 months, plus one-way shipping.
Security: Medium
- Jewish Photographic Memories by Gabriela Landau
- JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA
Marcia Zerivitz, Founding Executive Director (305) 672-5044 - When Gabriela Landau wandered the streets of New York in the 1950s and ‘60s, her camera focused on a particular and favorite subject: the Lower East Side and its corner delis, street vendors, busy pedestrians, piles of pretzels and handwritten Yiddish signs. Exhibit includes 29 framed 11"x14" photographs and 3 text panels.
Space Required: 80 linear feet
Rental Fee: $2,500 for 3 months plus shipping
Security: Medium. Evidence of $100,000 insurance coverage.
- One World, One People
- JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA
Miami Beach, FL
United States of America 
- This exhibition spans six decades of work by renowned photographer Arnold Newman. The collection of 53 framed photographs, 16" x 20", depicts Jewish public figures - artists, entertainers, philosophers, and politicians - each of whom has made a significant impact in his or her field. The images capture the unique personality of the person portrayed.
Space Required: 175 linear feet
Rental Fee: $6,000 for 3 months plus shipping
Security: High. Evidence of $275,000 insurance coverage.
Contact: Marcia Zerivitz, Founding Executive Director, (305) 672-5044 ext. 3180<
- Promised Land: Chanan Getraide
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
Large scale impressionistic photographs of Israel's landscape by the noted Israeli poet/photographer.
Space Required: 70-90 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205
- Roman Vishniac: Remember the Days of the World
- BERNARD MUSEUM OF JUDAICA AT TEMPLE EMANU-EL
One East 65th Street
New York, NY
United States of America 
- An exhibition of 16 haunting photographs by Roman Vishniac detailing and bearing witness to Jewish communities in Poland in the 1930s.
Space Required: approximately 500 square feet
Rental Fee: to be determined
Security: High
Contact: Elka Deitsch, Senior Curator, edeitsch@emanuelnyc.org, (212) 744-1400 x259
- Tikkun: Aliza Olmert
- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
One West 4th Street
New York, NY
United States of America - Conceptual photographs based on fragile constructions of broken egg shells convey the vulnerability of exhistence, obstacles to survival, and the imperative to sustain life. Tikkun, the Jewish charge to heal the world, is expressed through the mending of the shattered fragments.
Space Required: 145 running feet
Rental Fee: $100
Security:: Moderate
Contact: Laura Kruger, lkruger@huc.edu, (212) 824-2205