When the young pioneers who were to found Kibbutz Ein Harod embarked

 upon their long journey from Europe to Eretz Yisrael, they took with them

 Jewish ritual and ceremonial objects from their parents' homes. These objects

 became the core of the Judaica collection at the Mishkan Le'Omanut, the

 .Museum of Art in Ein Harod

 Haim Maor’s Good Jew exhibition is set in physical juxtaposition with the

 objects and artifacts of the Judaica collection and engages them in a kind of

 dialog. The objects are placeholders for thoughts, and when they are situated

 in proximity to Maor’s art each reverberates, ricochets and reflects off the

 other. This then is a group show of Haim Maor and the anonymous artists of

 .the Judaica collection

 ,For the past thirty-seven years, Maor has employed the media of performance

 installations, photography, and painting to explore Israeli/Jewish collective

 identity through the lens of his own familial story. He has created a major

 body of work relating to the Holocaust and has spent most of his artistic career

 .dealing with the subjects of memory, identity and otherness

 The show Good Jew, takes aboard all the connotations associated with that

 expression. I hope to have created a space that will invite questions and

 encourage each visitor to ponder its meaning. In this show Maor continues to

 reflect upon identity, otherness, and memory, using his own family's history

 .as a springboard for discussion

 Haim Maor (born in Jaffa Israel in 1951) is a self-defined second-generation

 holocaust survivor artist. He studied art at HaMidrasha, Beit Berl College and

 lived in Kibbutz Givat Haim Meuchad from 1977-2006. Maor is an associate

 professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and curator of the university's

 art galleries. Haim Maor lives and works in Metar with his wife Tirzah. They

.have five children and six grandchildren

 Curator - Dvora Liss