Goodman Family Museum - Preserving our Jewish Heritage

Mission

Collections

Exhibits

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Our Mission

The mission of the Goodman Family Judaic & Archival Museum at Temple Israel is to preserve our cherished heritage. The Temple Israel Museum & Fine Arts Committee supports the Museum as a way to enrich the lives of our Temple families.

Thanks to funding provided by the Goodman Family Judaica Museum Fund, we’re able to collect, preserve and exhibit articles from antiquity to modern times that represent the historical, artistic and cultural development of the Jewish people.

Our Collections

Our lovingly collected artifacts demonstrate how Jewish art is firmly rooted to ritual and bound to spiritual life.

Browse the Catalog (4.3 MB PDF file)

Next time you’re at Temple, come visit us in the Wasserman Atrium to enjoy the ever-changing exhibits. Questions? Please contact Mimi Marcus or call 248-661-5700.

Current Exhibit

Chuck Fishman Photographs

The photographs in the exhibit are drawn from and supplementing Chuck Fishman’s book, Polish Jews: The Final Chapter (1977), it presents an in-depth, photographic look at the state of Jewish life in Poland from the mid-1970s to 2016, a dwindling remnant of a once vibrant community. Jews had survived near-annihilation under Nazism.

With the passing of four decades, however, the narrative has radically changed. The fall of Communism has engendered a transformative rebirth, a ‘return to identity’ among many young Poles discovering hidden Jewish roots. The renewal of Jewish life in Poland is an extraordinary story that has its roots in the preservation and continuation of Jewish life under Communism.

For information and questions, please contact Mimi Marcus or call 248-661-5700.