Matchbox, signed by President Jimmy Carter and used by the president at the White House Hanukkah event, December 17, 1979. Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of Michael Kranish and family.
Collections
The Collections are composed of historic artifacts, personal and family papers, as well as archival documents & photographs that trace the Jewish community in Washington DC, suburban Maryland, and Northern Virginia from the 1850s to the present day. The Collections reflect a history that is at once local, national, and international.
Highlights
Matchbox, signed by President Jimmy
Carter and used by the president at the
White House Hanukkah event, December
17, 1979. Capital Jewish Museum
Collecon. Gi of Michael Kranish and
family.
2019 Mr. Nice Jewish Boy DC pageant winner's sash. Capital Jewish Museum
Collection. Gift of Ben Rosenbaum.
The 2019 Mr. Nice Jewish Boy DC pageant winner’s sash. Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of Ben Rosenbaum.
Photograph by Lloyd Wolf of Josh Maxey leading a Hanukkah candle lighting at the Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center's Jews of Color Hanukkah party, 2023. Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum. Gift of the photographer
Josh Maxey leading a Hanukkah candle lighting at the Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center’s Jews of Color Hanukkah party, 2023. Photograph by Lloyd Wolf. Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of the photographer.
Flier advertising a congregational Thanksgiving dinner hosted by Bet Mishpachah, the LGBTQ+ synagogue of Washington DC. Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Bet Mishpachah Collection
Flier advertising a congregational Thanksgiving dinner hosted by Bet Mishpachah, the LGBTQ+ synagogue of Washington DC. Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Bet Mishpachah Collection
Hand-knit lace collar worn on the bench of the Supreme Court by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Hand-knit lace collar worn on the bench of the Supreme Court by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Decoupage bottle made by Sol Ereza of Magen David Sephardic Congregation. Gift of Gwen Zuares, Capital Jewish Museum Collection.
Decoupage bottle made by Sol Ereza of Magen David Sephardic Congregation. Gift of Gwen Zuares, Capital Jewish Museum Collection.
A group protests outside the Kennedy Center during the Soviet Jewry movement.
A group protests outside the Kennedy Center, protesting the treatment of Soviet Jews while the Bolshoi Ballet was in town, August 1987. Capital Jewish Museum Collection, Soviet Jewry Collection, Gift of Joan and Oscar Dodek.
Highback armchair used on bimah of Talmud Torah synagogue located in Southwest Washington from 1893-1951. Gift of Ohev Sholom- The National Synagogue, Capital Jewish Museum Collection.
Highback armchair used on bimah of Talmud Torah synagogue located in Southwest Washington from 1893-1951. Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of Ohev Sholom-The National Synagogue.
Scale Model of the Historic 1876 Synagogue, ca. 1968. Capital Jewish Museum Collection
Scale Model of the Historic 1876 Synagogue, ca. 1968. Capital Jewish Museum Collection
Scrapbook from teen sorority activity in Washington DC, 1950s. Gift of Margot Heckman, Capital Jewish Museum Collection.
Scrapbook from teen sorority activity in Washington DC, 1950s. Gift of Margot Heckman, Capital Jewish Museum Collection.
"Jewish Creative Cooking: 200 years of Jewish Cooking in American" compiled by the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, 1975. Capital Jewish Museum collection. Gift of Lenore and Sol Gnatt
“Jewish Creative Cooking: 200 years of Jewish Cooking in American” compiled by the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, 1975. Capital Jewish Museum collection. Gift of Lenore and Sol Gnatt.
Rose Bernard (Sherman) standing in front of bank of file cabinets in their family office, mid-1940s. Gift of Douglas Sherman, Capital Jewish Museum Collection.
Rose Bernard (Sherman) standing in front of bank of file cabinets in their family office, mid-1940s. Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of Douglas Sherman.
Baseball cap worn by Andy Korobkin as a camper at Kaufmann Camp, ca. 1960s. Gift of Gail Shirazi, Capital Jewish Museum Collection.
Baseball cap worn by Andy Korobkin as a camper at Kaufmann Camp, ca. 1960s. Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of Gail Shirazi.
Matching blue and white mask and tallis worn throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic. Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of James Sullivan
Prayer shawl and mask worn by James Sullivan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of James Sullivan.
Poster advertising the Jewish Tribute to Farm Workers, May 11, 1975, at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, MD, 1975. Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Bert Silver Collection. Gift of Bert Silver.
Poster advertising the Jewish Tribute to Farm Workers, May 11, 1975, at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, MD. Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Bert Silver Collection. Gift of Bert Silver.
Portrait of Judith Heumann, created by artist and activist Wendy Elisheva Somerson, ca. 2020, to honor the work of Heumann. Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of Judith Heumann.
Portrait of Judith Heumann, created by artist and activist Wendy Elisheva Somerson, ca. 2020, to honor the work of Heumann. Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of Judith Heumann.
Recent Acquisitions
Avrum Ashery, Let My People Go, 1990. Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of Avrum Ashery.
Avrum Ashery Collection
Avrum Ashery, Let My People Go, 1990. Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of Avrum Ashery.
Elliot Sivowitch playing the violin in his apartment on Mass. Ave., NW, 1968.
The Sivowitch Collection
Elliot Sivowitch playing the violin in his apartment on Mass. Ave., NW, 1968. Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of Harold Wallace
Current Exhibitions
Black and white photo of a group of men seated at a table in Kronheim’s lunchroom. Counterclockwise: Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg (on phone), Senator Abe Ribicoff, developer Charles E. Smith, Judge David Bazelon, attorney Arnold Shaw, sportswriter Morrie Siegel, Judge J. Skelly Wright, Milton S. Kronheim, Sr., February 20, 1951. / Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of the Estate of Milton S. Kronheim, Sr.