Sewing our Family into the Southern Jewish Experience
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience 818 Howard Ave. New Orleans, LA 70113, New Orleans | USA, United StatesPack up the family and join us on Saturday, October 29th at the Museum! Families can drop in for gallery activities and crafts all about sewing and quilting. From 10 -12, families can play and learn together. Museum Admission includes all craft activities and a snack. Tickets can be purchased at the door or... Read More
Current Research: Emily Williams – Photographer and Oral Historian
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience 818 Howard Ave. New Orleans, LA 70113, New Orleans | USA, United StatesJoin us at the Museum as photographer and oral historian Emily Williams gives a glimpse of her ongoing work from this past summer which she spent traveling around Alabama. We’ll talk about her research and everything that went into a summer spent doing in-depth fieldwork all over the state. Williams will share her images, oral... Read More
Family Crafternoon at MSJE
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience 818 Howard Ave. New Orleans, LA 70113, New Orleans | USA, United StatesWhat: Family Sewing Craft and Gallery Activities at MSJE Who: Families - designed for families with PK -3rd graders, and all are welcome When: Sunday, November 13th. Come in for a 45 minute activity between 11am - 2pm Cost: Free for members and children. $10 - Adult Pre-registration ticket $15 - Adult ticket at the... Read More
Peter Wolf – Author of “The Sugar King”
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience 818 Howard Ave. New Orleans, LA 70113, New Orleans | USA, United StatesJoin us for a talk with New York Times best-selling author Peter Wolf as he discusses his new book, The Sugar King: Leon Godchaux, A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and His Jewish Roots. Wolf is a sixth-generation native of New Orleans and the author of the 2013 book, My New Orleans, Gone Away:... Read More
Hamentaschen Family Workshop
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience 818 Howard Ave. New Orleans, LA 70113, New Orleans | USA, United StatesBYO (Bake Your Own) kosher hamentaschen, Southern-style! We are teaming up with Chabad of Louisiana to host a family hamentaschen-making workshop at MSJE on Sunday, February 26 at 3pm. You’ll make the dough and choose your perfect down-home filling, with everything from pecan praline to good ol’ apricot jam available, then leave the mess behind... Read More
Virtual Tour: “God, Goats, and Pickup Trucks”
VirtualJoin the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience on March 9th, 2023 at 12 Central for a virtual tour of our new special exhibition, “God, Goats, and Pick-up Trucks: Maurice Schmidt’s Visions of Texas,” led by curator Tine Rassalle. Learn about Schmidt’s inspirations, see his works, and get the inside scoop about how the whole... Read More
KIDS’ Day at the Museum
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience 818 Howard Ave. New Orleans, LA 70113, New Orleans | USA, United StatesMuseums are for KIDS! Join us for a special KID-centric exploration of our new art exhibition, God, Goats, and Pickup Trucks: Maurice Schmidt’s Visions of Texas (goat pun intended). We’ll engage with this bright, colorful collection with a program designed especially for inquisitive young minds, including a busy scavenger hunt, a creative goat-themed craft, and... Read More
Southern Jewish Stories: Atlanta & New Orleans
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience 818 Howard Ave. New Orleans, LA 70113, New Orleans | USA, United StatesJoin us for a lively conversation between two Southern Jewish icons: Historian and community activist Janice Rothschild Blumberg of Atlanta, and Rabbi Edward Cohn of New Orleans. Janice Rothschild Blumberg has been at the crucial intersection of Jewish life and Southern history for over six decades in her roles as rebbetzin of the Temple in... Read More
Encountering the Sublime: The Art of Maurice Schmidt | Guest Lecturer Laura Huckaby
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience 818 Howard Ave. New Orleans, LA 70113, New Orleans | USA, United StatesMSJE welcomes guest lecturer Laura Huckaby, Curator and Assistant Director of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts in Texas, for a discussion of our current Special Exhibition, “God, Goats and Pickup Trucks: Maurice Schmidt’s Visions of Texas.” Texas artist Maurice Schmidt has been making art for more than 70 years. Deeply informed by his... Read More
Book Launch & Author Talk: “The Weight of History, the Power of Apology”
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience 818 Howard Ave. New Orleans, LA 70113, New Orleans | USA, United StatesHow do you right an historic wrong? Can you ever really accept reparations for the evils of the past? Fifty years after the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre, Cajun author Warren Perrin explores the devastating terror attack and the murder – and legacy – of one athlete in particular, Jewish Tulane weightlifter David Berger, in his... Read More
