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The Jewish Canon















































           Museum of the Jewish People


           at Beit Hatfutsot                                      A journey through the ongoing
                                                                  story of the Jewish people









                                              faiths, through interactive exhibitions, timeless   culture as the distinctive connection bonding
           By Leoni Jesner
                                              artifacts and multimedia technology.  Jews around the world. The exhibition invites
           “The children of your servants will continue,                          the visitor to relate to the story through his and
           and their descendants will be established before                       her own unique experiences of Jewish life.
           you.”(Psalms 102)                  The New Core Exhibition
                                              Construction of the new museum complex
                                              commenced in 2011; nine years later the   Inspiration, planning and
                  here does the story begin and where   museum’s new 66,000ft² interactive, state-of-  inception
                  does it end? This is just one of the   the-art Core Exhibition will open in fall 2020.   The new Core Exhibition is a collaborative
                  questions asked at the Museum of   Renovated and re-imagined in accordance   effort  between  a  diverse  team  of  experts,
                  the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot,   with three guiding principles: pluralism and   with Dr. Orit Shaham Gover at the helm. Her
           Wwhich reveals 4,000 years of Jewish   diversity, creativity and renewal, and relevancy   tenure as chief curator of Beit Hatfutsot began
           history, from antiquity to the present day. In   and  personal  identification,  the  exhibition   in 2012, although her long history with the
           a celebration of culture and creativity, and a   will unravel the unique and ongoing story   institution stretches back to the museum’s
           pluralistic narrative of the Jewish faith, the   of the Jewish people. The narrative follows   inception in 1978, when she started working
           museum’s innovative approach to storytelling   the journey of the Jews as a people among   only three months into its opening to work
           engages some 200,000 visitors a year, of all   peoples and the role of Jewish identity and   in the education department. She is joined

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