Once Upon a Time Photos: 8.21.09

The Baltimore Jewish Times publishes unidentified photographs from the collection of Jewish Museum of Maryland each week. Click here to see the most recent photo on their website. If you can identify anyone in these photos and more information about them, contact Jobi Zink, Senior Collections Manager and Registrar at 410.732.6400 x226 or jzink@jewishmuseummd.org.

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 8/21/09

PastPerfect Accession #: 2009.007.001

Status: Partially Identified. Five boys "goofing around" in Druid Hill Park, c. 1945. On the left is Hy Zlotowitz (later known as Hy Zolet); in the back center is Royal Pollokoff.

Special thanks to Helene Zolet.

Once Upon a Time Photos: 8.14.09

The Baltimore Jewish Times publishes unidentified photographs from the collection of Jewish Museum of Maryland each week. Click here to see the most recent photo on their website. If you can identify anyone in these photos and more information about them, contact Jobi Zink, Senior Collections Manager and Registrar at 410.732.6400 x226 or jzink@jewishmuseummd.org.

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 8/14/09

PastPerfect Accession #:1997.122.030

Status: Unidentified. Woman with child possibly at Patterson Park, n.d.

JMM Closing for Jewish Holidays

Please note that the Museum and its offices will be closed for the following holidays and dates:

Sunday, September 20 - Rosh Hashanah
Monday, September 28 - Yom Kippur
Sunday, October 4 - Sukkot
Sunday, October 11 - Simchat Torah

The Museum wishes you and yours a wonderful holiday season! Happy New Year's!

The Upstairs of Lloyd Street Synagogue has Re-Opened!

Lloyd Street Synagogue is once again open for tours at 1 and 2:30pm on Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays - as well as for private groups Sunday - Friday starting at 9:30am. The downstairs of the synagogue will not reopen until the spring when our new exhibition, The Synagogue Speaks, opens.

B'nai Israel Synagogue and our two exhibition galleries, Voices of Lombard Street: A Century of Change in East Baltimore and Drawing on Tradition: The Book of Esther, are also available to view.

The JMM is once again full price, which is free for members, $8 for adults, $4 for students, and $3 for children ages 12 and under.

Once Upon a Time Photos: 8.7.09

The Baltimore Jewish Times publishes unidentified photographs from the collection of Jewish Museum of Maryland each week. Click here to see the most recent photo on their website. If you can identify anyone in these photos and more information about them, contact Jobi Zink, Senior Collections Manager and Registrar at 410.732.6400 x226 or jzink@jewishmuseummd.org.

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 8/07/09

PastPerfect Accession #: 1993.029.013

Status: Partially Identified. L-R: 1. Selma Schimberg 2. Gertie Greenberg

Special thanks to Mildred Hurwitz and Phil Schimberg.