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
Shalom Y’all Means All Y’all: Stories of Southern Jewish LGBTQ+ Communities
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience 818 Howard Ave. New Orleans, LA 70113, New Orleans | USA, United StatesThis Pride Month, MSJE will host a virtual panel with the founders of Southern Jewish LGBTQ+ groups to share the stories of how these communities came to be. The panel will include speakers from SOJOURN in Atlanta and JPNOLA in New Orleans who’ll explore why they saw a need for Jewish queer groups in... Read More
Children of Activism: Jewish Fighters in the Anti-Apartheid and Civil Rights Movements
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience 818 Howard Ave. New Orleans, LA 70113, New Orleans | USA, United StatesMSJE is partnering with the South African Jewish Museum to share a conversation about how Jewish activists helped change systems built to oppress Black communities in the American South and Apartheid South Africa. The virtual event will feature two sons exploring the legacies of their activist fathers: Nic Wolpe, the son of Harold Wolpe, a... Read More
Teacher Open House
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience 818 Howard Ave. New Orleans, LA 70113, New Orleans | USA, United StatesMSJE welcomes all teachers to learn about the field trip offerings and resources available for educators. In addition to complimentary bagels and coffee, you'll experience the tour your students will go on when they visit MSJE. Learn about the unique history of southern Jews and how you can bring this diverse perspective to your classroom.... Read More
The Unburied Past: Resurrecting the Leo Frank Case
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience 818 Howard Ave. New Orleans, LA 70113, New Orleans | USA, United StatesIn 1913, 13-year-old Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. The factory manager, a college-educated Jew named Leo Frank, was arrested, tried, and convicted in a trial that seized national headlines. When the governor commuted his death sentence, Frank was kidnapped and lynched by a... Read More
Differences: A Civil War Novel
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience 818 Howard Ave. New Orleans, LA 70113, New Orleans | USA, United StatesOriginally written in 1867, Differences was one of the first post-Civil War novels by a Jewish author. Written by Dr. Nathan Mayer, a Union soldier who served as a battlefield surgeon and fought at Antietam, the book has been recently edited and republished by Professor Steven Bowman. Bowman will join MSJE Executive Director Kenneth Hoffman in conversation... Read More
Most Fortunate Unfortunates Book Launch
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience 818 Howard Ave. New Orleans, LA 70113, New Orleans | USA, United StatesJoin us at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience on October 25th at 6:30pm Central Time for the official launch of Marlene Trestman’s new book Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans. The work, the first comprehensive history of America’s first purpose-built Jewish orphanage, provides a view of life in the... Read More
“A Better Life for Their Children”: Special Exhibition Opening Event
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience 818 Howard Ave. New Orleans, LA 70113, New Orleans | USA, United StatesOur newest Special Exhibition, "A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America," will debut with an Opening Event and Lecture on Thursday, November 16th. Event Schedule 5:30pm: Members-Only Preview. Members and Patrons are invited for an exclusive Meet & Greet with photographer Andrew Feiler and... Read More
