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the nearly two-hour trip from
North Jersey to see their familiar
immigrant stories reflected in the
exhibits.
"It really hit home because I came
here when I was 13, and all these
years you don't have time to think,
and all of a sudden you get to be 86,"
Fox said, chuckling softly.
Inspired by the collection, Fox
took advantage of the storytelling
studio at the museum, where guests
can record their histories for its
archives. She spoke about growing
up in Vienna and how an empathetic
superintendent saved her family by
warning them to hide in the dark
when the Nazis first overran the city.
"All night long we heard the scream-
ing and the crying, and the next day
all the Jews were gone Fox said, her
voice trembling. "Our door was the
only one that wasn't marked with a J."
Bronya Vygodskaya, a law-firm
administrator from Brooklyn, also
knows what it feels like to experi-
ence anti-Semitism. In Russia, she
was fired from her job teaching
English in college "because I was a
Jew. They officially told me that."
Experiencing hatred for being
Jewish, she said, makes it even more
important to preserve that identity.
That's why the new museum means
so much, she explained.
"This woman:' she said, gesturing
at a photograph of an immigrant,
"looks like my grandmother, you
know?"
At every corner, docents called
to visitors to make sure they didn't
miss a particularly interesting
artifact — a telegram about the
planned annihilation of the Jews
during World War II or passports
from immigrants who came through
Ellis Island. Mixed in the maze of
information were laminated sheets

of Hebrew and Yiddish newspapers
to pick up and Old World clothes for
kids to try on.
"I have to come back at least
another dozen times so I can soak it
all
said Catherine Camlin, 54, of
nearby Cherry Hill, N.J. "It's very, it's
very ..." she trailed off, patting her
hand over her heart. "It makes you
want to trace your roots back, too."
Her friend, Louis Seiden, 62, of
Cinnaminson, N.J., said he hoped the
museum would show the non-Jewish
world what Jews accomplished in
America.
Attracting those visitors will be a
challenge, but "if nothing else, some-
thing like this will bring people in,"
said Joe Albert, gesturing toward the
piano that songwriter Irving Berlin
once used.
"This is really something, this is
not what I would've imagined:' said
Albert, state commander for the
Jewish War Veterans, Department of
Pennsylvania. "And look, a Yiddish
typewriter?"
A small crowd congregated in the
last exhibit, which invited visitors to
post responses to questions lining
the circular room: Should religion
play a role in American politics? Are
Jews white?
"Our religion is based on the
constant questioning of things, so
I think it's brilliant that they cre-
ated this space for people to think
and question," said University of
Delaware freshman Jessie Leider, 18,
as she posted her opinion on why
intermarriage was a threat to reli-
gious communities.
"It's an ongoing religion," Leider
said. "It's not just the history. It's the
future of our people!' ❑

Jewish Exponent Executive Editor Lisa
Hostein contributed to this report.

MUSEUM AT A GLANCE

LOCATION:101 South Independence

Mall East, along the Independence Mall
in Philadelphia's Center City - a block
north of Independence Hall, where
the Constitution and Declaration of
Independence were signed, and across
the street from the Liberty Bell Center.

SIZE:100,000 square feet. 25,000

square feet in core collection.

PRICE TAG: $150 million.

DESIGNER: Polshek Partnership
Architects (now Ennead Architects),
New York.

NUMBER OF ARTIFACTS IN
COLLECTION: 20,000, more than

1,000 currently on display.

OLDEST ARTIFACT: Family-owned
Bible from Gomez family,1661.

LARGEST ARTIFACT: Irving Berlin
first piano, on which he composed
"Alexander's Ragtime Band."

COOLEST ARTIFACT: Steven
Spielberg's original 8 mm camera.

WEBSITE: nmajh.org .