Dec 1 2005 Mtg

From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America"
Lecture and Exhibit

Thursday, December 1, 2005

Galleries Open: 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Lecture on the Exhibit: 7:15 p.m. Reservations Required for Lecture: (310) 440-4667

Please leave your name, phone number and number of guest. You will NOT receive a confirmation back.

Co-sponsored by Skirball Cultural Center - No charge for JGSLA members and guests

Making its only West Coast appearance at the Skirball, "From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America," organized by the Library of Congress, features more than 200 treasures of Judaica Americana. In telling the fascinating stories of Jewish immigrants who made the United States their home, the exhibition takes a close look at the themes—and sometimes conflicting aims—of accommodation, assertion, adaptation and acculturation that have characterized the American Jewish experience from its beginnings in 1654 to the present day.

JGSLA members will have an opportunity to tour the galleries prior to our meeting and lecture and again after the meeting.

Lecture: Grace Cohen Grossman, Skirball Senior Curator of Judaica and Americana and
managing curator of From Haven to Home at the Skirball, gives a slide-illustrated, behind-the-scenes look at the development of the exhibition, revealing how the Library of Congress and partner institutions
approached the opportunity and challenge of commemorating 350 years of the American Jewish experience. Exhibition planning is discussed in the context of the marking of earlier milestones of Jewish settlement in America fifty and one hundred years ago.

SPEAKER: Grace Cohen Grossman, Grossman is Senior Curator for Judaica and Americana at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, where she has worked since1983. Previously she served in a similar capacity at the Spertus Museum in Chicago. Trained as an art historian with an M.A. in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University, in 1994 she received a doctorate in Jewish Cultural History from Hebrew Union College. Dr. Grossman has also long been associated with the Smithsonian Institution researching their Judaica collection. Author and editor of numerous exhibit catalogs and books, she received the National Jewish Book Award for two of her publications, Jewish Art and Judaica at the Smithsonian and was designated a Finalist for her most recent book Jewish Museums of the World.

LOCATION: Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

Food will be available for purchase prior to our 7:15 p.m. lecture from a food cart or at Zeidler's Cafe, where reservations for dinner are required: (310) 440-4575.

For assistance and further information about this meeting, please contact:
Pamela Weisberger, 1st V.P. Programs, JGSLA
Pamela@jgsla.org