How To Tell The Story: Jewish Museums, Jewish History, Jewish Metahistory

Lecture Joint presentation by YIVO and Fordham University Admission: Free

Contemporary historical museums tend not to exhibit artifacts. They use multimedia to tell a story. This story is an interpretation of history designed to convey a message.

This illustrated lecture will analyze how five Jewish historical museums—Beit Hatefutsot in Tel Aviv, Jüdisches Museum in Berlin, Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme in Paris, the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, and POLIN: Museum of the History of Polish Jews—interpret Jewish history and the means by which they transmit their messages.

Location: Fordham School of Law | Rm. Law 3-02 | Lincoln Center Campus | New York City

About the Speaker

Moshe Rosman, originally from Chicago, is a professor in the Koschitzky Department of Jewish History of Bar Ilan University in Israel. He has held visiting appointments and prestigious fellowships at Yale, Penn, University of Michigan, Leipzig, Wroclaw and other universities. Professor Rosman's prize-winning books include The Lords' Jews: Jews and Magnates in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba’al Shem Tov, and most recently How Jewish Is Jewish History? His latest research project is a history of Jewish women in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.