JINELC Colloquium - Painted Memories: A Jewish Childhood in Poland

Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland) "Painted Memories: A Jewish Childhood In Poland Before The Holocaust."

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett was honored for lifetime achievement by the Foundation for Jewish Culture, received honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Haifa in 2017. She received with the 2015 Marshall Sklare Award for her contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry and was decorated with the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for her contribution to POLIN Museum. She was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She serves on Advisory Boards for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Council of American Jewish Museums, Jewish Museum Vienna, Jewish Museum Berlin, and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow. She also advises on museum and exhibition projects in Lithuania and Israel.

Co-sponsors: St. Louis Polonia; the Department of History; and the Department of Art History and ArchaeologyArt History.