Our programs
ish Festival
ish brings artists and communities together to explore Jewish and Israeli cultural heritage through the arts, and is best known for producing Cincinnati's biennial Jewish and Israeli arts and culture festival.
Cincinnati boasts the oldest Jewish community west of the Allegheny Mountains. Our Downtown is schmeared with remnants of historic Jewish life. With its proximal location to historic Plum Street Temple and Chestnut Street Cemetery, the "Old Jewish Cemetery" (to name a few), Washington Park presents an ideal location for ish Festival.
While many Cincinnati Jewish agencies are located north of the City center, ish activates Downtown venues with Jewish arts and cultural programming, effectively returning Cincinnati Jewish programming to our roots in the Downtown core. We choose to host ish Festival in Washington Park, a popular downtown park with a strong reputation for hosting arts and cultural events, to better promote exposure, access, and engagement with the broader Cincinnati community.
Please visit our GET INVOLVED page for more info on participating or contact us.
ish brings artists and communities together to explore Jewish and Israeli cultural heritage through the arts, and is best known for producing Cincinnati's biennial Jewish and Israeli arts and culture festival.
Cincinnati boasts the oldest Jewish community west of the Allegheny Mountains. Our Downtown is schmeared with remnants of historic Jewish life. With its proximal location to historic Plum Street Temple and Chestnut Street Cemetery, the "Old Jewish Cemetery" (to name a few), Washington Park presents an ideal location for ish Festival.
While many Cincinnati Jewish agencies are located north of the City center, ish activates Downtown venues with Jewish arts and cultural programming, effectively returning Cincinnati Jewish programming to our roots in the Downtown core. We choose to host ish Festival in Washington Park, a popular downtown park with a strong reputation for hosting arts and cultural events, to better promote exposure, access, and engagement with the broader Cincinnati community.
Please visit our GET INVOLVED page for more info on participating or contact us.
"Jewish Cincinnati: A Walk Through History"
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Jewish Cincinnati: A Walk Through History, historic Jewish walking tours
For our second biennial event, in 2019 ish partnered with Cincinnati Skirball Museum and local artist, J. Miles Wolf, to premier "A Walk Through History" historic Jewish walking tours. Building upon assets from the 2018 FotoFocus exhibition "Jewish Cincinnati: A Photographic History", created by Wolf in partnership with the Skirball, "A Walk Through History" features current, former, and now extinct places of worship in Cincinnati's West End neighborhood and Downtown core. Learn more & download the self-guided tour map! |
