The Big Read 2025: Walking Tour: Jewish Miami Beach – A Century of Community, Culture & Change
This event is sold out. If you would like to be placed on a waitlist, contact Miriam Bussel Alonso at mbussela@mdc.edu.
Join us for an immersive, multisensory exploration of the historic Jewish presence in South Beach, tracing the rise, evolution, and enduring legacy of the Jewish community in Miami Beach over the past 100 years. Examined through the lens of how neighborhoods inform identity – inspired by Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street – this walking tour delves into how Miami’s Jewish communities helped shape the cultural and architectural fabric of South Beach and invites participants to experience the neighborhood as a living archive, where architecture, memory, history, and culture intersect.
Highlights include a walking tour of Miami Beach’s Jewish history with local guide Howard Brayer, and the following exhibitions:
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Shtetl in the South explores the Jewish retiree community of 1970s Miami Beach through photographer Andy Sweet’s vivid images.
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MOSAIC Reimagined, the museum’s core exhibition, tells the story of more than 250 years of Jewish life in Florida.
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The Hate Around Us brings Florida’s history of discrimination to light, revealing how communities work together to combat hate.
This tour is fully ADA-compliant. Please bring a water bottle, sunscreen, a hat, and comfortable walking shoes.
Presented as part of the 2025 NEA Big Read Miami in partnership with the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU.
NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
El proyecto NEA Big Read es una iniciativa del National Endowment for the Arts (el Fondo Nacional para las Artes de Estados Unidos) en cooperación con Arts Midwest.
