Curator Michael Jacobs on the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience
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Cover photo by Rhonda Dumas, Pieface Photography
Show notes:
2:00 Museum of Southern Jewish Experience beginning
2012 MSJE moved to Jackson MS and became part of Institute of Southern Jewish Life
3:30 4th year in New Orleans
4:50 MSJE’s mission
5:45 Chapman Family Research Center
6:00 archival vault – over 375 collections and over 4,000 artifacts
7:20 genealogy workshops
10:00 artifacts from southern Jewish general stores, e.g., 1890s saloon’s whiskey jug
12:30 collection digitization
13:35 Jewish orphans’ home exhibition
14:30 MSJE’s film
15:20 A Better Life for Their Children exhibition
18:00 Greetings From Main Street exhibition
22:00 French Jews from Alsace-Lorraine
23:00 Central European Jews
23:55 Galveston Plan – Rabbi Henry Cohen
26:00 New Americans exhibition at St. Charles Parish Library
26:30 love story of Joseph Sperling and Anni Frind
36:00 New American Clubs
38:00 relevance of Holocaust survivors’ stories
39:45 rapid response collecting
41:00 view of justice
42:00 lynching of Leo Frank and southern Jewish mayors
44:00 social justice
44:50 Howard Turner – rapid response collecting
45:00 Emily Gould – slave trader memorials, e.g., Colston Statue in Bristol
48:00 Confederate statues built often by the Daughters of the Confederacy
50:45 future exhibition by MSJE on current war
52:00 Turner: school visits at MSJE
53:45 MSJE hours
54:35 Shalom Y’all video, etc. on MSJE site
56:00 visit to MSJE
56:55 interactive map on St. Charles streetcar line
57:30 New Americans - upcoming MSJE exhibition
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