Michael Feldberg
By Michael Feldberg
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News Archives Are a Communal Attic, Unglamorous But Vital
On this page last week, opinion writer Tom Freudenheim expressed dismay that the American Jewish Historical Society agreed to sell its six colonial-era Levy-Franks family portraits to a national, non-Jewish museum and blamed the society’s trustees for callously selling off the American Jewish people’s “patrimony” (“Stop Communal Institutions From Selling Off Our Heritage,” January 13)….
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News Archives Are a Communal Attic, Unglamorous But Vital
On this page last week, opinion writer Tom Freudenheim expressed dismay that the American Jewish Historical Society agreed to sell its six colonial-era Levy-Franks family portraits to a national, non-Jewish museum and blamed the society’s trustees for callously selling off the American Jewish people’s “patrimony” (“Stop Communal Institutions From Selling Off Our Heritage,” January 13)….
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