EXHIBITIONS

Octav Băncilă's paintings of Jewsare well known for their realism. During his stay in Munich, while studying at the Akademie derBildenden Künste in 1896-97 , he visited the museums and admired paintings of rabbis by Rembrandt and other masters. At that time he started to paint Jewish figures and created "The Head of a Jew" and…

In the early decades of the 20th century, several young avant-garde artists from Romania, most of them Jewish, conquered the art world by storm. Five of the artists who were actively involved in the birth of the Dada movement in Zurich were Jews born in Romania. Art scholars have tried to establish their sources of…

The Jewish leadership in Romania continued to operate during World War II, and towards the end of the war it focused on the demand to return Jews deported to Transnistria and allow some of them to immigrate to Palestine. In March 1944, the liberation of Transnistria began by the Soviet army, and on March 14,…

The photographs shown in this exhibition are taken from the collection of photographs by Zoltan Kluger in the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem. They describe the first Jewish settlers in Tarshiha, where approximately one hundred Romanian immigrant families who upon arrival in Israel were sent to settle in abandoned Arab homes in the village. Tarshiha,…

Edward Serotta is a photographer, journalist and author who specializes in documenting Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe. Serotta was born in Savannah, Georgia, and has been working in Central Europe since 1985. In 2000 he founded Centropa, a nonprofit, Jewish historical institute dedicated to preserving 20th century Jewish family stories and photos from…