CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Museum of Art prides itself on representing diverse cultures, religions and aesthetics from across the globe and more than 5,000 years of human history. For most of its 108-year history, however, the museum has given virtually no explicit attention to Jewish art, religion and history.
That’s changing this summer. In late May the museum installed seven examples of Judaica — ritual objects used in Jewish religious observance. They’re on view in galleries 116, 202, 212, 214, 219 and 236, where they mingle with Islamic art, European art from the 17th to the 19th centuries, and Korean art.