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What's On
Summer season working time
From May 12 till the end of September the museum is open also on Fridays.
Event at Riga Sinagogue on Shavuot festival
Shavuot - the holiday of giving the Torah - is celebrated in 25-27 May. We invite you to event at the Riga Synagogue Peitav Shul on May 28! The event ...
Exhibition of works of the Jurmala Art School students “Amazing Israel”
Exhibition of works of students of the Jurmala Art School “Amazing Israel” was opened in the Riga Jewish Community house. It has become a tradition in the Jurmala Art School ...
The Riga ghetto in the Drawings of Aleksandra Beļcova
Open Storage: Ritov Family Collection
In 2017 at the house in Riga, at Turgeneva str. 17 the members of “Free Riga” Association have found a closet (and some would say – a shed) with big ...

Ongoing Exhibitions

Ongoing Exhibitions

Temporary

 Exhibition of works of the Jurmala Art School students “Amazing Israel” Exhibition of works of students of the Jurmala Art School “Amazing Israel” was opened in the Riga Jewish Community house. It has become a tradition in the Jurmala Art School ...

Permanent exhibition

 Open Storage: Ritov Family Collection In 2017 at the house in Riga, at Turgeneva str. 17 the members of “Free Riga” Association have found a closet (and some would say – a shed) with big ...

Temporary

 Exhibition of the Museum Youth Club The exhibition “My Family Stories: Memory and History” was created as part of the Youth Museum Club project. Meetings of the youth museum club were held in 2020-2021. They were attended ...

Permanent exhibition

 Jews in Latvia until 1918 The exposition begins with a section dedicated to the early period of Jewish history in Latvia, from the settlement in 16th century to 19th century. The first Jewish communities were established in ...

Permanent exhibition

 Jews in Latvia in 1918-1941 The second room is dedicated to the cultural, political and social life of the Jews in Latvia from 1918 to 1941 — the golden age of the Jewish community in ...

Permanent exhibition

 Jews in Nazi-occupied Latvia in 1941-1945 The third room of the exhibition presents the tragedy of the Holocaust in Latvia. With documents, photo and video evidence, it recounts the murder of more than 70,000 Latvian Jews ...
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Documents
More than 5,000 documents of various contents and significance make up a large part of the museum’s collection. This collection includes documents of religious life and traditions before the 20th ...
Periodicals
Published in 1887, “Еврейский Вестник” (“Jewish Herald”) was the first Jewish Latvian newspaper. However, Jewish press only gained popularity during Latvia’s independence, as liberal press rules allowed for free journalism ...
Interviews
Since 2011, the Museum “Jews in Latvia” has been organizing ethnographic and folklore field research. Jewish memories of traditional life in the small towns of Latgale in eastern Latvia before ...
Memoirs
Memoirs about Jewish history in Latvia – life, professional activities, political activities, public activities and participation in historical events. Memoirs and testimonies from the Nazi-occupation period, mostly by Holocaust survivors ...
Books
Collection
DEPORTATION OF JEWS FROM CENTRAL EUROPE TO RIGA DURING THE HOLOCAUST

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