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Learn more about the Museum\'s unexpected and fascinating history on the interactive Centennial Celebration Timeline.

Highlights of the year\'s celebrations include the exhibition My America: Art from The Jewish Museum Collection, 1900-1955, which includes this jubilant Elie Nadelman sculpture.'; ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// $scene_2 = ' In 1904, Judge Mayer Sulzberger donated 26 objects of Jewish ceremonial art to The Jewish Theological Seminary of America as the core of a museum collection. The newly formed museum was the first institution of its kind in the United States and one of the first of a handful in the world.

You can support the Museum as it enters its second century!

'; ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// $scene_3 = 'In 1944, Frieda Schiff Warburg gave her family residence, at 1109 Fifth Avenue, as a home for the Museum. While it is not apparent by looking at the building today, the mansion was actually only about 3/4 of the size of the current Museum. Visit the Centennial Celebration Timeline to learn how the Museum grew to its current form.

'; ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// $scene_4 = 'Dr. Harry G. Friedman presented a major collection of ceremonial objects, paintings, sculptures, prints and manuscripts to the Museum in 1941. His continuing donations, eventually numbering more than 6,000 works, include pieces from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Another important acquisition was the Museum\'s 1925 purchase of 400 important Jewish ceremonial objects collected in the 19th century by Turkish art dealer Hadji Ephraim Benguiat.

Visit the online collection to see treasures from the Museum\'s collection of Ceremonial Art.'; ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// $scene_5 = 'The Museum\'s first curator, Stephen Kayser, declared the mission of using the fine arts to explore the substance of Jewish life and history. He defined the Museum\'s audience as "the American community," which should "be given insight into the traditions, history, legends and aspirations of the Jewish people." The tradition continues with special exhibition Focus on the Soul: The Photographs of Lotte Jacobi, opening February 6.

'; ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// $scene_6 = 'Joy Ungerleider, director during the 1970\'s, founded the Education Department, with an emphasis on addressing critical themes related to the Jewish experience, while making them accessible to audiences of all cultural backgrounds.

Hear Dr. Susannah Heschel address the question Judaism in America: Promised Land or Europe\'s Diaspora? Thursday, March 4 at 6:30pm.

Families will enjoy It\'s Purim: Esther\'s Jesters and Silly Dressers, a captivating play that tells the Purim story.
Sunday, February 29, 2pm.'; ?>