The Big Read 2025: Walking Tour: Jewish Miami Beach – A Century of Community, Culture & Change

Sun, 26 Oct, 2025 at 10:30 am UTC-04:00

301 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139-6906, United States | Miami Beach

Miami Book Fair
Publisher/HostMiami Book Fair
The Big Read 2025: Walking Tour: Jewish Miami Beach \u2013 A Century of Community, Culture & Change
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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 Jewish Miami Beach, led by Howard Brayer of the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU.
Reflections on Judy Blume’s Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself and the post-war Jewish experience.
A look at Andy Sweet’s vivid photographs documenting the 1970s retiree community.
An exploration of historic synagogue buildings now home to the Jewish Museum, and exhibitions like MOSAIC, which chronicles more than 250 years of Jewish life in Florida through stories and artifacts from India, Colombia, Venezuela, and Cuba.
This tour is fully ADA-compliant. Please bring a water bottle, sunscreen, a hat, and comfortable walking shoes.
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