6:00 PM – Commemorate the Movement for Soviet Jewry: JMM Member Exclusive Opening Event

6:00 PM – Commemorate the Movement for Soviet Jewry: JMM Member Exclusive Opening Event

Date

Dec 06 2022
, 6PM- 7:30PM

There are two time slots for this program, 4:00 PM and 6:00 PM. Register for 4:00 PM here.

Join the JMM for a member exclusive opening event of the exhibits Power of Protest: The Movement to Free Soviet Jews and My Odessa: Paintings by Yefim Ladyzhensky on December 6. The two complementary exhibits deal with Jews in the former Soviet Union, one through paintings reflecting on early 20th century Ukraine and the other through an examination of the U.S. movement to support Soviet Jews. 

The event will feature a private group tour of the exhibits as well as a commemoration of the December 6, 1987 mass mobilization in Washington, D.C. in support of Soviet Jews. We will talk about the ways Jewish Baltimoreans shaped the movement for Soviet Jewry and hear from people who are involved in Ukraine support today.  

Pre-recorded remarks filmed by The Associated’s staff on the ground in Ukraine will be presented, along with remarks from a Museum Guide at the Jewish Museum of Odessa (Migdal Shorashim). The curator of My Odessa: Paintings by Yefim Ladyzhensky will be at the JMM to talk with visitors about the exhibit. Visitors will also have the opportunity to share their own stories and reflections through recording a video in the Museum’s story booth.

If you have questions about the event, please reach out to Noah Mitchel, JMM Program Coordinator, at nmitchel@jewishmuseummd.org or 443-873-5178.

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About the exhibits:

Power of Protest: The Movement to Free Soviet Jews presents a time when American Jews launched one of the most successful human rights campaigns ever. Before the internet, social media, or a 24-hour news cycle, ordinary citizens sustained a grassroots effort to demand freedom for Soviet Jews denied rights in the Soviet Union. Inspired by the civil rights, antiwar, and feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s, students, community leaders, and tens of thousands of people mobilized to free Soviet Jews.

My Odessa: Paintings by Yefim Ladyzhensky is a presentation of a city and land in the midst of revolution through the paintings of Ladyzhensky. Ladyzhensky’s paintings share memories that are both recognizably drawn from life in Soviet Odessa, and highly specific and personal. The specificity of Ladyzhensky’s subjects and colors illustrates his particular relationship to the city of his youth: a place of heartfelt fondness and longing. His Odessa was a dynamic city rich with humor, arts, and Jewish life. 

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