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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