Adas Israel Congregation is pleased to invite the public to a closing celebration and online art sale for the exhibition, Authenticity and Identity, curated by Ori Z. Soltes.

Authenticity and Identity addresses itself to contemporary Jewish identity with more than 70 works of painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, by contemporary Israeli artists, European artists, and artists from around the United States, including many from the Washington, D.C. region.

Exhibition curator Ori Z Soltes is a pre-eminent scholar of Jewish art, culture, and history, and a professor at Georgetown University. The former Director of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum he is co-founding Director of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project and has authored numerious books including, The Ashen Rainbow: Essays on the Arts and the Holocaust; and Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish art and Architecture. Dr. Soltes was assisted by exhibition director Robert Bettmann. The exhibition is produced with support from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Hakhel Jewish Community Incubator. A printed exhibition catalog is available from Day Eight books.

Join us for a closing night celebration including discussion of the exhibition by curator Ori Z. Soltes, breakout rooms with the exhibiting artists, and a Klezmer music performance.