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Chasing history: the allure of the object

By Dong Eun Kim, Head Conservator, Center for Jewish History

Michael Simonson, Archivist and Registrar, Leo Baeck Institute

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In the previous blog post, the Werner J. and Gisella Levi
Cahnman Conservation Laboratory had received the Leo Baeck
Institute’s Metz Jewish Community Collection for assessment and treatment. The
Conservators in the lab were captivated by these artifacts; we felt…

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Chasing history: the allure of the object

By Dong Eun Kim, Head Conservator, Center for Jewish History

Post 2

In the previous blog post, the Werner J. and Gisella Levi
Cahnman Conservation Laboratory had received the Leo Baeck
Institute’s Metz Jewish Community Collection for assessment and treatment. The
Conservators in the lab were captivated by these artifacts; we felt there was
something truly important about them,…

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Chasing history: the allure of the object

By Dong Eun Kim, Head Conservator

Post 1

What is it that attracts us to certain objects? What makes
one artifact more compelling than another? These answers can often be obvious,
but occasionally an object can take us on a winding journey before it reveals
the secret to its appeal. This was our experience with the Leo Baeck
Institute’s Metz…

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Emancipation and the Jews of Metz, France
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History

“The means of making the Jews happy and useful? This is it: stop making them unhappy and useless. Give them, or rather return to them the right of citizens, which you’ve denied them against all divine and human laws.” This was Zalkind Hourwitz’s…

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