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The Skirball Museum in Los Angeles has striking dis-
plays about Jewish life in America.
ROBERT L. PINCUS
Copley News Service
Los Angeles
onnections between exhi-
bitions at the Skirball
Cultural Center museum
in Los Angeles may at first
glance seem elusive.
One recent exhibit focused on
Maurice Sendak, the beloved and
innovative writer and image-maker
of picture books. Another offering
took a look at the elegant work of a
Colonial American silversmith who
lacked the name value of Paul Revere
— Myer Myers. This month, the
Skirball features "Arnold Mesches:
FBI Files," an exhibition of collages
and paintings by the contemporary
American artist who created these
works after gaining access to pages of
files compiled on him by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. Later this
year, there'll be a wide-ranging pres-
entation dedicated to the life and
work of Albert Einstein.
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A seemingly disparate roster —
but it all fits into the master plan of
the Skirball.
The mission of the museum, like
that of the Skirball Cultural Center
of which it is a part, is to look at the
way the history of Jewish culture
intersects with that of American cul-
ture.
"We're not a religious institution,"
says Uri D. Herscher, the founding
president and chief executive officer
of the Skirball Cultural Center and a
scholar of American Jewish history.
"We're a cultural and educational
institution without denominational
association. People are welcomed by
a heritage, not by a dogma."
The mega-collection now known
as the Skirball began in Cincinnati as
part of Hebrew Union College. The
school opened in 1875, though there
is no documented dare for the start
of the collection. What is known is
that the college's librarian amassed a
major collection of Judaica in the
first quarter of the 20th century.
Jewish In America on page 38
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