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Culture Closed by coronavirus, Jewish museums consider an uncertain future online
As the world faces the novel coronavirus pandemic, the stewards of history face a unique challenge: How can museums continue to engage audiences while their physical buildings are shuttered in the interests of public health? The answer, for many, lies in retooling online infrastructure, bringing programming to social media and launching outreach campaigns. Museums are…
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Culture Auschwitz exhibition strikes New York archbishop silent
One day after the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, faith leaders from around New York City gathered to view artifacts from the former death camp. “We are very focused on being part of a broader effort to educate people of all faiths,” said Jack Kliger, the president and CEO of the Museum of…
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Culture ‘Tell Them We Blew The Shofar At Auschwitz,’ He Said. 75 Years Later, She Did.
75 Rosh Hashanahs ago, in 1944, the sound of a shofar rang out at Auschwitz. Very few heard it. It was Rosh Hashanah, and as the Jewish year 5704 turned into 5705, Chaskel Tydor, a Jewish work dispatcher at Auschwitz III-Monowitz, arranged for a minyan of prisoners to be sent to an isolated part of…
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Culture Items From The Anne Frank House Are On Display In America For The First Time Ever
The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is a major resource for the millions of people who have been captivated by Frank’s story. The home, where Frank, her family, the three-person van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer hid from the Nazis in a secret annex between 1942 and 1944, has become a site of pilgrimage since…
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Art Times Review of Mossad-Organized Eichmann Exhibit Sparks Right-Wing Backlash
Art critics are used to having the last word on things, so New York Times writer Jason Farago must have been surprised when his review of “Operation Finale,” an exhibition on the capture and trial of SS leader Adolf Eichmann at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage, earned him the severe ire of the Algemeiner’s…
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Culture Honoring Elie Wiesel, They Read ‘Night’ Aloud. Here’s What They Learned.
“Enter this place, passerby,” Michael Glickman said on January 29, “and meet those who survived the nightmare. Meet them, and learn from them.” He stood temporarily in near-darkness, on a nearly empty stage. Projected behind him, the face of the late Elie Wiesel, author of those words, loomed in triplicate: Light, shadowed, and almost fully…
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