Curator: Dr. Erica Lehrer,
Departments of History & Sociology/Anthropology,
Concordia University
(Montreal, Canada)
Dates: Online currently. In
gallery June 25 – July 14, 2013
Exhibition Opening Event: June
30, 2013, 12:00p.m.
Souvenir, Talisman, Toy: Jews
for Hearth and Home is an exhibit and intercultural dialogue
project that seeks to understand and
debate the popularity and meanings of Polish
made
figurines depicting Jews. The goal of this project is to showcase the long history and variety of
cultural,
religious, economic and political influences on the figurines, and to foster dialogue
among those who hold
different perspectives on their meaning.
The website, is a trilingual (English, Polish, Hebrew), participatory site where the public
can document and upload their own figurines and share in the dialogue. The bilingual
(English, Polish) museum exhibit, featuring over 100 Polish Jewish figurines,
will sponsor
interactive activities during the city’s 23rd annual Jewish Culture Festival
from June 30 – July 14.
The project is affiliated with CEREV, Concordia University’s Centre for Ethnographic
Research and
Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence (cerev.concordia.ca). Other project
partners and patrons
include the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw,
the Jewish Community Center of
Krakow, and Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow.
Museum address: ul. Krakowska
46, 31- 066 Kraków, Poland
Opening hours to public: 11 a.m. –
7 p.m. (until 9 p.m. Thursday. Monday closed, except July 1)
Cost: Entry
is free from June 28 – July 7, and on Sundays. 9 zloty/5 zloty other days.
Gallery: Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum, Kraków, Poland
Facebook: Souvenir Talisman Toy. Zabawka Pamiątka Talizman
Twitter: JewishFigs
YouTube: SouvenirTalismanToy
For more information, please contact: Dr. Ewa Węgrzyn, Project Coordinator
0048-605.934.738
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