10:00: Docent-led tour of our two historic synagogues, the Lloyd Street Synagogue and B’nai Israel.

11:00: Docent led tour of our special exhibition, My Odessa followed by a self-guided exploration of Power of Protest.

The synagogue tour does require going up and down stairs. If mobility is a concern for anyone, please email Carly Schwartz (cschwartz@chizukamuno.org) and we will arrange an alternative, 15-minute long synagogue tour video for you to watch in the accessible lobby.

There is a free, City-owned parking lot directly across from the Museum on Lloyd Street. It has about twenty spots and we encourage our guests to check there first for parking, and then using street parking around the Museum.

About the exhibits:

My Odessa is a presentation of a city and land in the midst of revolution through the paintings of Yefim 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.  

Power of Protest 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 the right to speak, write, worship, work, or depart the Soviet state. Inspired by the civil rights, antiwar, and feminist movements of the 1960s, students, community leaders, and tens of thousands of people mobilized to free Soviet Jews.