Events
UPCOMING EVENTS
Community Free Day for The Book Smugglers
March 26, 2024
Jewish Museum Milwaukee is thrilled to host this community day for anyone living in Milwaukee County to visit The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis - The True Story of the Paper Brigade... Read More
LEARN MOREThey Wanted Us to Find Them: Discovering the Book Smugglers of the Vilna Ghetto
March 28, 2024
Join the National Jewish Book Award-winning author of The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis, Dr. David Fishman, as he shares insights about the research that founded the exhibit of the same... Read More
LEARN MOREBook ‘SNugglers’ Story Time
March 29, 2024
Bring the whole family to Jewish Museum Milwaukee to enjoy a meaningful story time connected to our current special exhibit, The Book Smugglers. Our Book 'SNuggler' sessions feature a picture book that has been banned in various places around the... Read More
LEARN MOREAuthoritarian Destruction and Resistance: Preserving Cultural Literature during War
April 10, 2024
Literature is often the first cultural element to be marked for destruction by authoritarian regimes. But what makes the written word such a threat to these destructive forces? And how have different communities used the preservation of the written word... Read More
LEARN MOREBanned Book Club – They Call Us Enemy
May 14, 2024
Presented by the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center's Tapestry Arts & Ideas in partnership with Jewish Museum Milwaukee. Why are so many states and school districts banning books? We’ll dive into reading and discussing books that are... Read More
LEARN MOREKlezmer Concert: Eastern European Jewish Music
May 16, 2024
The famous Jewish neuroscientist Oliver Sacks suggested that “music evokes emotion, and emotion can bring it’s memory.” It comes as little surprise then that music was a powerful mode of resilience and resistance for Jewish people during the Holocaust. Its... Read More
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SPARK!
SPARK! is a free program for caregivers and loved ones experiencing beginning to mid-stage Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of memory loss.