The Jewish Art in Museums of XX – XXI Century

The relevance lies in the problem of defining Jewish art, and also in the fact that in Russia, only in the 2000s, began the active opening of Jewish private museums.The novelty of the topic is that attempts to study Jewish culture and art in the museum space from the scientific point of view are a new topic for history of art.The subject is the specifics of the formation of expositions of Russian Jewish museums since the 2000s, embodying different concepts: a private museum of the Russian public figure Vyacheslav Kantor, founded in 2001; The Museum of Jewish History in Russia (IUEB), opened in 2011; Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in 2012.The object - the items of Jewish art and craft, made by Jewish masters, marked by the cult and cultural significance of Russian private museum collections of the XXI century.The purpose of this work is to reveal the specificity of the exposure of Jewish art from the collections of private Russian museums that have been formed since the 2000s.The contextual and sociological method, the quantitative method, formal-stylistic and comparative analysis are applied.The problem of research consists in a small number of professional literature on subjects from Russian museum collections.Art in museum collections is represented by both secular and religious forms, objects from Eastern Europe, combining Jewish symbols, oriental ornamentation and elements of neo-baroque, neo-renaissance, etc. in different techniques. The names of avant-garde artists and members of art organizations represent secular art.MAGMA presents the art of "Jewish artists", the Museum of the History of Jews in Russia highlights the period of active Jewish residence in the territories of Russia from the 18th century to the 1980s, and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center tries to present the culture of Jews as universal ideas from ancient to nowadays, where secular art finds its inspiration in religious and folklore, but goes far beyond this framework.