`Silk Road' Shows

Two family-oriented museum exhibits
give a hands-on feel of the Silk Road era.

DIANA LIEBERMAN
Special to the Jewish News

T

he Silk Road, the many-
fingered route that trans-
mitted both goods and
cultures between East and
West, was an actual trade passage as
well as a poetic metaphor.
Visitors to New York's Yeshiva
University Museum travel back to
the years of medieval exploration,
1100-1200 C.E., at Traders on the

another popular feature. They were
made especially for this exhibit,
which opened in September 2003.
Yeshiva University Museum occu-
pies 15,000 square feet at the Center
for Jewish History, at 15 W. 16th
Street. For more information, call
(212) 294-8330, or visit the Yeshiva
University Museum Web site at
www.y-umuseum.org
Closer to home, Descendents of the

Silk Road: Exchanges Between East 6
West opened April 9 at Cranbrook

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Children at New York's Yeshiva University Museum — re-enacting the sale of
spices, silks and precious stones at the medieval bazaar — offer insight into the
lives ofiewish traders.

Institute of Science in
Sea Routes, showing
Bloomfield Township.
through April 2005.
The show includes
The show focuses
more than 30 artifacts
on the experiences
such as musical
of Jewish sea
instruments, jade
traders. Museum
objects and sculp-
visitors can handle
tures. Each symbol-
gems, spices and
izes the far-reaching
textiles at a
effects of the trade
Middle-Eastern
networks on both
shuk (bazaar); visit
Western civilization -
a genizah, a Jewish
and the inhabitants of
storehouse for old
An example of a ship that
the
Silk Road.
religious books and traveled from Cairo to Venice.
After
a year at
ceremonial objects
Cranbook, the show
that could no
will travel to several local schools.
longer be used (modeled after the
Descendents of the Silk Road was
ancient Ben Ezra synagogue in
made possible by the Ford Motor
Cairo); and take a peek at the study
Company Fund. For more informa-
of the Rambam, the renowned schol-
tion, visit the Cranbrook Institute of
ar Maimonides, who lived in Cairo.
Science
Web site:
Two large-model sailing vessels, an
www.craribrook.edu/institute
Arab dhow and Venetian galley, are

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