Displays of Belonging, with Sarah Zarrow

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In her book Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891–1941 author Sarah Ellen Zarrow illuminates the lives and work of Polish Jewish collectors and museologists who sought to preserve the treasures of the Jewish past while demonstrating Jewish belonging on Polish soil. Her talk will offer a nuanced understanding of the multiplicity of ways in which Jews in Poland saw their present and dreamed of their future.