Published: 17 July 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
THE PROPOSED JEWISH ARTS QUARTER, on Selwyn Street in Elsternwick, includes a new eight-storey building featuring exhibition, co-working and education spaces.
If approved, the precinct will take in a relocated Jewish Museum of Australia, the Jewish Holocaust Centre, the Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre, secular primary school Sholem Aleichem College and Classic Cinemas, home to the International Jewish Film Festival.
The design also features a sprawling plaza, to be surrounded by shops and restaurants.
From Israeli dance workshops to Yiddish performances, art and craft markets, and street festivals, it is hoped the quarter will be a creative hub to learn, shop, eat, meet and schmooze.
Project co-chair Joe Tigel grew up blocks away from the Kadimah, where his father, a Holocaust survivor, threw himself into cultural life after arriving in Australia from Poland through Germany following the Second World War.
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Photo: Jewish Arts Quarter co-chair Joe Tigel and Jewish Museum of Australia director Jess Bram at the site of the proposed precinct in Elsternwick (Justin McManus)
