Traveling Exhibitions

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Our Exhibitions at Your Venue

Loans of these traveling exhibitions are contracted with a $750 registrar’s fee and require that the borrowing venue cover the costs of round-trip shipping and insurance, and acknowledge in all digital, print, and publicity materials that the exhibition comes from the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum in New York.

Please contact Nancy Mantell, Curator for Traveling Exhibitions, at 212-824-2218 or nmantell@huc.edu.

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Sacred Land

In Sacred Land, legendary American photographer Ralph Gibson, and producer Martin Cohen, have created a unique photographic exhibition and publication that capture the soul of Israel, both ancient and contemporary.

HOLLY MARKHOFF, Silent Celebration, 2022

Seeking Joy

Fifty artists express a myriad of experiences – the delight in life cycle occasions and annual holidays, the beauty of the natural world, the thrill of music and sports, and the happiness binding family and friends. These works lighten our hearts as a source of strength, empathy, and faith in a peaceful future.

Frank Stella: Had Gadya

Inspired by El Lissitzky's 1919 illustrations of the Passover song "Had Gadya," Frank Stella embarked on a two-year process of creating the vivid abstractions of this print series using a combination of various printmaking techniques – lithography, linoleum block, silkscreen, and rubber relief with collage elements and hand-coloring.

One Nation

Contemporary artists illuminate the diverse and vibrant identities comprising American society and express their aspirations for equity, inclusion, and justice.

Magical Thinking: Superstitions and Other Persistent Notions

Black cats, horseshoes, wishbones, and mirrors are among the symbols chosen for exploration by over 50 contemporary artists.

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Additional Traveling Exhibits

Besa - Albanian Muslim Rescuers During the Holocaust: Photographs by Normal Gershman

The exhibit is comprised of powerful photographs and personal stories of Albanian Muslim families who sheltered and saved Jews during the Second World War. The concept of BESA, meaning honor, inspired the Albanians to put themselves at risk to save fleeing strangers.

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CINEMA JUDAICA: The Epic Cycle, 1949-1971

Original movie theater posters and lobby advertisements depict post-World War II Jewish-themed films that helped counteract Holocaust imagery of mass Jewish victimization.

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CINEMA JUDAICA: The War Years, 1939-1949

These original, iconic Hollywood film posters illustrate the motion picture industry’s role in countering American isolationism, advocating the war against the Nazis, and influencing post-war perceptions of the Jewish people and the founding of the State of Israel.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer and His Artists

A total of 17 different artists created Illustrations for 39 works of Nobel Prize Winner, I.B. Singer. Their styles range from whimsical, charming children’s stories to poignant, sophisticated, and sexy adult books. Among the featured artists are Larry Rivers, Ira Moskowitz, Maurice Sendak, Antonio Frasconi and Raphael Soyer.

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Israel: A Light on the Land

Views of the Israeli landscape and life by internationally renowned 20th century artists and photographers including Ari Bar Lev, Avner Moriah, Chanan Getraide, Joyce Kozloff, Louis Lozowick, and Abel Pann, amongst others, ignite our passion for Israel.

Joelle Dautricourt: The Book of Happy Writing

Graphic art and calligraphy express the mystical, symbolic, and divine forces within the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet and evokes Holocaust memory and joyful freedom.

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Basic Judaism

20th century artists and photographers illuminate basic concepts in Judaism and reflect on traditional and modern Jewish practices and rituals.

Promised Land: Photographs by Chanan Getraide

A series of eighteen large format, full-color photographs in an impressionist style of the majesty of contemporary Israeli vistas by renowned Israeli poet/photographer.

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Rebirth After the Holocaust: The Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp, 1945-1950

This photo-documentary exhibition depicts the unknown story of the return to life after the liberation of survivors of the Holocaust, whose families and communities had been destroyed and who were stateless and homeless.

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The Art of Aging

35 artists explore the ways in which aging is a process and lifelong journey affecting the dynamics of human relationships, creativity, memory, continuity, and growth.

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The Bronfman Haggadah

The Bronfman Haggadah is a collaboration between philanthropist Edgar M. Bronfman and artist Jan Aronson that connects the Passover Seder and the world of contemporary Jewish fine art. Using both ancient scripture and contemporary poetry, this Haggadah is “at once a radical reimagining of the Passover text and a sublime full-color art book.” The exhibition consists of 40 original page-sized water colors.

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New York in the Depression Era

Leading artists of the Depression Era depicted New York City at a time of crisis and resilience, and offer historical precedents for the revival of this city in the wake of Covid today.

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Nathan Hilu’s Journal: Word, Image, Memory

Nathan Hilu’s imaginative works evoke memories of his long, multi-faceted life.

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Waldsee-1944

An exhibition in memory of the annihilation of Hungarian Jewry during the summer of 1944, when Jews deported to their deaths at Auschwitz were required to write deceptive postcards from the nonexistent “Waldsee” to their families, reassuring them that all was well.

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Joyce Ellen Weinstein - Ruth, Linoleum Block Print and Glitter

Women of the Bible

Contemporary artists chose biblical women as subjects for works of art in an effort to creatively interpret the varied aspects of these iconic figures. They challenge the biblical tradition that has dominated Western civilization in an effort to examine the core meaning of the text. Through art, they depict images beyond the imagined or expected.

List of Traveling Exhibitions
To arrange a traveling exhibition to come to your venue, please contact Nancy Mantell, Curator, at nmantell@huc.edu or 212-824-2218.

Frank Stella: Had Gadya
Sacred Land
Seeking Joy
One Nation
Magical Thinking: Superstitions and Other Persistent Notions
The Promised Land: Photographs by Chanan Getraide
Israel: A Light on the Land
Waldsee: 1944
Rebirth After the Holocaust: The Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp, 1945 – 1950
New York in the Depression Era

Women of the Bible
The Bronfman Haggadah
Joelle Dautricourt: The Book of Happy Writing
Nathan Hilu’s World
I.B. Singer and His Artists
BESA: How Albanian Muslims Saved Jews During the Holocaust
Cinema Judaica: The War Years
Cinema Judaica: The Epic Cycle
Basic Judaism

Traveling Exhibitions

Our Exhibitions at Your Venue