Presented By: Judaic Studies
Rising from the Rubble: Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Chief Curator of POLIN Museum
Facing the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes on the site of the Warsaw ghetto and prewar Jewish neighborhood, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews completes the memorial complex. At the monument, we honor those who died by remembering how they died. At the museum, we honor them – and those who came before and after – by remembering how they lived. Since POLIN Museum opened the building in April 2013, almost a million visitors have passed through its doors. This lecture explores the creation of POLIN Museum and its multimedia narrative exhibition, a journey of a thousand years, and its potential to be an agent of transformation that can move an entire society forward.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. She is distinguished University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University. Her books include Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage; Image before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864–1939 (with Lucjan Dobroszycki); and The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times (edited with Jonathan Karp). Her edited volume Writing a Modern Jewish History: Essays in Honor of Salo W. Baron won a National Jewish Book Award.They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust, which she coauthored with her father, Mayer Kirshenblatt, also won several awards.
She has been honored with an award for lifetime achievement by the Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Mlotek Prize for Yiddish and Yiddish Culture, the Marshall Sklare award for her contributions to the social scientific study of Jewry, an honorary doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, and most recently a medal from the President of Poland for her contribution to the creation of POLIN Museum of the History of Poland . She currently serves on advisory boards for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Council of American Jewish Museums, Vienna Jewish Museum, Berlin Jewish Museum, and Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow. She was recently honored by the President of Poland for her role in the creation of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
Sponsored by: Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and Copernicus Program in Polish Studies
Photo courtesy of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. She is distinguished University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University. Her books include Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage; Image before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864–1939 (with Lucjan Dobroszycki); and The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times (edited with Jonathan Karp). Her edited volume Writing a Modern Jewish History: Essays in Honor of Salo W. Baron won a National Jewish Book Award.They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust, which she coauthored with her father, Mayer Kirshenblatt, also won several awards.
She has been honored with an award for lifetime achievement by the Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Mlotek Prize for Yiddish and Yiddish Culture, the Marshall Sklare award for her contributions to the social scientific study of Jewry, an honorary doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, and most recently a medal from the President of Poland for her contribution to the creation of POLIN Museum of the History of Poland . She currently serves on advisory boards for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Council of American Jewish Museums, Vienna Jewish Museum, Berlin Jewish Museum, and Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow. She was recently honored by the President of Poland for her role in the creation of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
Sponsored by: Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and Copernicus Program in Polish Studies
Photo courtesy of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw
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