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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: M88- 77
Creator: MOSAIC, Jewish Life in Florida (Organization)
Title, Dates: MOSAIC Project photographic collection, 1880-1970.
Amount: 650.00 photographs
Medium Included: photographs 4"x5" negs.
Organization/Arrangement: Numerical.
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Terms Governing Use:
Biographical/Historical:     The MOSAIC Project began in 1984 to document the history of Jews and Jewish life in Florida. Initially formed as a local history project, it expanded to a statewide effort in 1986 with funding from the Florida Legislature and grant funding from state agencies. MOSAIC, Inc. was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1989 "to retrieve, document, preserve, and display for the public benefit - photographs, documents and artifacts depicting the Jewish experience in Florida."

    MOSAIC was a joint project of the University of Miami Judaic Studies Program, the Soref Jewish Community Center in Ft. Lauderdale, and the Central Agency for Jewish Education, in association with the Florida Department of State and the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. The focus of the project was development of a traveling exhibit portraying Jewish life in Florida, along with community education programs to augment the impact of the exhibit. The exhibit opened in Miami in October 1990 and traveled to ten other Florida cities through 1993; in 1994 the exhibit traveled nationally. In 1995, MOSAIC found a permanent home with the opening of the Sanford L. Ziff Jewish Museum of Florida in Miami Beach.

    MOSAIC assembled over 6,000 items and later loaned prints to the Florida State Archives for copying. The images selected by Archives staff for copying form this collection.
Summary:     This collection consists of 650 black-and-white images documenting the lives and experiences of Florida's Jewish community and their contributions to the state's history, culture, and growth as an ethnically diverse, modern state. Among the photographs in this collection are images depicting Jewish individuals and families; social, religious, ceremonial, and celebratory activities; and synagogue, home, and school scenes.
Finding Aids:
Additional Physical Form: These images have been digitied and are available on the Florida Memory web site: https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
Reproduction Note:
Location of Originals/Duplicates: Original negatives in custody of Sanford L. Ziff Jewish Museum of Florida: Home of MOSAIC 301 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33139
Associated Materials: For more materials related to the MOSAIC Project, see Series S1678, Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs, MOSAIC Project Planning Files, 1988-1990 (.25 cubic foot).
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General Note: Florida Photographic Collection Number P88-77, "Mosaic Photo Collection."
Electronic Records Access: https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
Subject Access Fields: Jews Florida
Photographs. aat
Negatives. aat
Florida Religion
Florida Social life and customs
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