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9 Nov 2010, 4:15 am
RNS reports that the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia will open to the public on November 26, after grand opening ceremonies on the weekend of Nov. 12-14. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 2:27 pm
On Slate, Jonathan Sarna, professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University and chief historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History, offers an interesting, brief account of General Grant’s 1862 order expelling Jews as a class from the... [read post]
4 May 2011, 4:20 am
Holocaust Memorial Museum have jointly set up a Jewish American Heritage Month website that links to extensive resources on the Jewish American experience. [read post]
4 Apr 2023, 6:15 am
Other existing Jewish sites include the Jewish Quarter in Vlora, where a population of Jews from Greece arrived in the 18th and early 19th centuries, and the Solomon Museum of Jewish history in Berat. [read post]
8 May 2017, 12:34 pm
May is Jewish American Heritage MonthThe Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of Jewish Americans who have helped form the fabric of American history, culture and society.Last week the National Archives presented The Jewish… [read post]
30 Apr 2021, 1:44 pm
Today President Biden issued a Proclamation (full text) declaring May 2021 as Jewish American Heritage Month. [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 3:00 pm
Current special exhibitions include Against the Odds: American Jews and the Rescue of Europe’s Refugees, 1933-1941 and A Town Known as Auschwitz: The Life and Death of a Jewish Community. [read post]
27 May 2015, 1:58 pm
If you care about the history and future of American museums, I hope that you will please join Judge Barbara Jaffe and me for this wonderful event at New York County Lawyers' Association on June 16. [read post]
29 Dec 2016, 6:39 am
That piece of the family tree (from a family tree of the earliest Jewish families in America at the National Museum of American Jewish History) is here (forgive it turning sideways). [read post]
9 Dec 2014, 9:30 pm
“The seminar is sponsored jointly by the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the Wilson Center. [read post]
11 May 2023, 2:32 am
The justification for the Statute declares, “[t]he looting was not only designed to enrich the Third Reich but also integral to the Holocaust’s goal of eliminating all vestiges of Jewish identity and culture. [read post]
26 Mar 2009, 2:51 am
With words and answers and pictures and questions and breathing in the dense history, you are transported to a teeming time, a dreaming time, the same American dream that drew my ancestors and that continues to draw 'em in even as we speak. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 11:30 am
President Trump today in remarks (full text) after touring the National Museum of African American History and Culture gave his most explicit denunciation of the increasing number of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. in recent weeks. [read post]
8 May 2010, 2:46 pm
American art historians have entirely ignored him and the provenance folks related to the American Association of Museums have been criminally negligent in failing to document his role in the history of 20th Century art.Otto Dix - Portrait of the Art Dealer Alfred Flechtheim (1926)Jules Pascin - Alfred Flechtheim as ToreadorHans Bolz - Alfred Flechtheim - 1910My earlier posts on Alfred Flechtheim here and here.Copyright Litigation Handbook (West… [read post]
26 Sep 2020, 4:05 am
”...Darby English, a professor of art history at the University of Chicago and a former adjunct curator at the Museum of Modern Art, called the decision “cowardly” and “an insult to art and the public alike. [read post]
20 Dec 2006, 8:08 pm
Holocaust Memorial Museum to commemorate Jewish suffering under the Nazis, in a ceremony held just days after Iran had a conference denying the genocide. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 9:18 pm
History will view this practice of systematic extortion by the members of the American Association of Museums with the same horror that we view the post-War extortion practices of the Austrian museums.Austria also let the Leopold Museum keep an extorted work on the false pretext that the government of Austria doesn't own the Leopold Museum, so a law covering "federal museums" doesn't cover it. [read post]
28 Mar 2010, 2:47 pm
More on the panel, Wrestling the Dead Hand of History organized by Prof. [read post]
22 Apr 2018, 10:13 am
via www.tabletmag.com A friend of my son is Chinese-American from one of these Southeast Asian countries. [read post]
21 Dec 2006, 6:01 pm
Holocaust Memorial Museum to commemorate Jewish suffering under the Nazis, in a ceremony held just days after Iran had a conference denying the genocide. [read post]
