The Jerusalem Museum

In this visually rich sampling of the arts and artifacts housed in the New York City Jewish Museum, viewers are given as much of an encyclopedic tour as eighteen minutes can provide. Spanning some 4,000 years, Jewish culture embraces a number of the arts, and viewers are given an historic overview through paintings, sculpture, pottery, etc. representative of the Jewish peasant life, religious life, and the horrors of the Holocaust. While lending a richness and swift pace to the program, the onslaught of information may be difficult for some people to assimilate without repeated viewings. This observation aside, The Jewish Museum is an interesting sampling of what museum director Joan Rosenbaum calls "a touchstone of identity for Jewish people". Recommended. (See HERMAN AND MARGUERITE for availability.)