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This post was written by Dr. Shay Pilnik, the Director of Emil and Jenny A. Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Yeshiva University in New York, NY. Mariane Hirsch, a comparative literature and memory studies scholar and daughter… Read More

Every trip I’ve taken to Eastern Europe has involved the odd out-of-body experience. A few years ago, for example, I stood at a crosswalk in Warsaw on a bright, sunny day with lots of people out and about and suddenly… Read More

Our newest special exhibit, Book Smugglers: Poets, Partisans and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis details the efforts made by the Paper Brigade of the Vilna Ghetto to rescue Jewish culture from certain destruction. The Paper Brigade… Read More

JMM occupies a unique niche in the museum world in Milwaukee. We use the Jewish experience to build bridges between groups of people and between eras. We live our tagline “Where Conversations Happen” by looking at multiple perspectives of a topic or issue, by partnering with diverse organizations, by asking visitors to use critical thinking skills to contemplate commonalities and differences of a particular subject over time.

By: Jaxon Katch, 7th Grade Student When it was time to pick a project for my Bar Mitzvah, my Mom and I talked about ideas and I knew that I wanted to do something different.  In fact, when she asked… Read More