Julius Rosenwald Induction to the American Jewish Hall of Fame

Описание: The American Jewish Hall of Fame: https://amuseum.org/
This program originally took place on Sunday, November 9th at 10am Pacific time.

The Jewish-American Hall of Fame was established by Mel Wacks[1] at the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, California in 1969, with the support and encouragement of Seymour Fromer, Director of the Magnes Museum. It was planned to fight antisemitism by issuing annual medals and mount Jewish-American Hall of Fame plaques to commemorate the accomplishments of men and women in various fields, historic sites and events.

The Jewish-American Hall of Fame remained associated with the Magnes Museum until 2000, when the museum announced it was merging with the San Francisco Jewish Museum (now The Contemporary Jewish Museum). This “much anticipated union was closely followed by a quickie divorce on grounds of irreconcilable differences” (Magnes Judaica Museum Joins Berkeley Library – Review, New York Times,Jan. 22, 2012)― and the Judah L. Magnes Museum eventually morphed into the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2012. On July 15, 2001 the Jewish-American Hall of Fame became an operating division of the American Jewish Historical Society, located in The Center for Jewish History, thanks to the efforts of Dr. Michael Feldberg, Executive Director of the AJHS.