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Spring 2019 Opening Reception | Memory Objects and the Vishniac Archive
Mar 5, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life cordially invites you
to an opening reception for the new exhibition, Memory Objects: Judaica Collections, Global Migrations
and to celebrate the gift of the Roman Vishniac Archive
Doors open at 5 pm
Reception
Opening Remarks
George Breslauer, Faculty Director, The Magnes
Francesco Spagnolo, Curator, The Magnes
Honoring Mara Vishniac Kohn
Naomi Schiff and Prof. Benjamin Schiff
Grandchildren of Roman VIshniac (1897-1990) and children of Mara Vishniac Kohn (1926-2018)
Keynote
Tom Freudenheim
Collecting Jewish Objects in Times of Crisis
After serving as curator at the Jewish Museum in New York and Assistant Director of the University Art Museum in Berkeley, Tom Freudenheim (Germany, 1937) went on to prominent positions at prominent cultural heritage institutions worldwide, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, the Jewish Museum Berlin, and the Gilbert Collection in London
Free and open to the public | RSVP at bit.ly/magnesspring19 by 2.22.2019