ANU Museum of the Jewish People

This guide to the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv opens with Abba Kovner, the Vilna ghetto partisan who in 1945 joined a secret plot to poison a German city in revenge for the Holocaust, and who later moved to a kibbutz and became a poet instead. It traces how Kovner's grief shaped the museum he helped found in 1978, built around ideas rather than relics of destruction, and how a decade-long rebuild reopened it as ANU in 2021 with synagogue models spanning Aleppo to Cochin. Look for the guitar displayed beside a fifteenth-century scroll as you move through the galleries.