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Museum Hours
Tuesday - Friday
10:30a - 3:00p
Sunday
1:00 - 4:00p


Admission
General Public: $3
Members: Free



RESEARCH LIBRARY and ARCHIVE

Open by appointment

Researchers are welcome to use the library. Please schedule an appointment prior to your visit by calling 503.226.3600 Ext 102 or curator@ojm.org



Incorporating the archives of the Jewish Historical Society of Oregon

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Institutional Member, Council of American Jewish Museums

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Contituent Agency of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland


 

Past Exhibits

 

Alice Lok Cahana:
From Ashes to the Rainbow

April 5 - May 10, 2009


Yes We Can!
Unlearning Discrimination in Oregon

January 19 - March 29, 2009




 

Charlotte Salomon:
Life? or Theater?

September 6, 2008 -  January 4, 2009




 

Paul Goldman: “To Return to the Land…”
Photographs Of The Birth Of Israel

In recognition of the 60th Anniversary of the State of Israel
June 5 - September 21, 2008

 


 

Chaim Gross:
Modernist Drawings

March 6 – May 25, 2008

 

 


 

ORA - Northwest Jewish Artists present
Exodus: Our Journeys

February 7 – 24, 2008

 

 



 

Lauren Pressler:
Ludwig Salzer: Man of Letters

October 14, 2007 - January 27, 2008


 

 

An Ocean View:
Vacations at the Oregon Coast

June 21 – September 23, 2007




The Song of Songs - The Honeybee in the Garden
Illustrated Manuscript pages by Debra Band

February 1 – May 6, 2007

 

 


One World, One People
Portraits by Arnold Newman

October 5, 2006 to January 24, 2007

 


 

The Art of Aging
May 4 - September 3, 2006

 




Jews@Work

150 Years of Commerce & Industry in Oregon, Part II (1922-2005)
October 30, 2005 - April 16, 2006

Jews@Work
150 Years of Commerce& Industry in Oregon, Part I (1850-1921)
June 5 - October 16, 2005


Reach for the Moon:
When Art and Medicine Intersect

January 30 - April, 2005

 


The Art of Giving
December 5, 2004 - April 30, 2005

 


 

Curator's Choice!
Favorite, Unusual, and Unidentifiable Items from OJM's Collection

September 19, 2004 - January 2, 2005

 

 



Life and Light:
Congregation Beth Israel and
the Founding of a Community

May 2, 2004 - September 5, 2004


 

Imagining the Bible:
The Vision of Jaap Pander

September 4, 2003 - January 4, 2004

 



 

Artistic Unions:
Ketubbot in Oregon

May 4 - August 31, 2003

 

 



Three Shades of Valor
Works by Jeanne Moment, Evelyn Presser, and Sylvia Shlim

March 6 - April 27, 2003


 

Leslie Starobin:
Shadows Across the Promised Land
Photographs & digital photomontages

September 5 - February 2, 2003

 

 


DAFFF: Paper Lace: Illuminations and Blessings
July 1, 2002 - September 2, 2002




No Easy Road: Unlearning Discrimination in Oregon
July 1 - August 30, 2002



 

A Call to Serve:
Oregon Jews in the Armed Services

November 11, 2001 - April, 2002

 



Scenes from Genesis:
Prints by David Bennett

Manifestations of the Divine: Sculpture by Willa Schneberg

September - October, 2001



 

Fruits of Our Labor; Orthodox Jews at Work
Photographs by Yves Mozelsio

July - August, 2000 

 

 


 

Frank Stella:
Illustrations after El Lissitzky's Had Gadya

April 10 -  June 29, 2001

 

 


 

Tobi Kahn:
Avoda -  Objects of the Spirit

February 1 through March 29, 2001

 

 


 

Echoes: A Century Survey
Paintings by Arnold Mesches

September - October, 2000

 



Another Forgotten People... Jews of the Former Soviet Union
Photographs by Sharon Faulkner

June - August, 2000


 

The Jews of Kaifeng
April - May 2000

 



 

The New Year of the Trees
An Exhibit of Quilts in honor of Tu B'Shevat

June - August, 2000