You are watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors at the weekend. Tv, television for serious readers. She teaches American History at university is the wishes a professor, a Mcknight University professor, the rudolph chair in immigration history and the director of the immigration History Research center. Lee is the author of three awardwinning books in u. S. Immigration, americas gates, chinese immigration during the exclusionary era, 18821943, and angel island, gateway to america in the making of asian america, a history. At the immigration History Research center she has helped to merge immigration history with the digital humanities. She launched and oversees the National Endowment for the humanities funded immigration story project which works with recent immigrants and refugees to collect, preserve and share their experiences. Her book america for americans a history of xenophobia in the United States is the subject of tonight talk. Please welcome erika lee.
Acres. The significance of that he was involved, partially involved in the creation of the original president s park, a tourist site 12 myles from here that was open from 2004 until 2010. That was the home of all 42 of these sculptures. He was actually also instrumental and commissioned in 2010 to come take these sculptures when that park went bankrupt and put them in his stone crusher. So he did not have the heart to do that, thank god. And spent a considerable amount of his own money to transport every one of these one by one from that bankrupt, nonfunctional park 12 miles from here to his property here as a way to store them temporarily until he figured out what he wanted to do with them. The sculptor of all of these is a gentleman by the named of david adickes. Not in the home attic but adickes. And he, if hes still alive, is probably in his early 90s. He was a painter and artist out of houston who was visiting friends in canada and was coming home by way of Mount Rushmore and beca
Good evening and welcome, im rita lerner, daughter of Holocaust Survivors and trustee of the museum of jewish heritage, a living memorial to the holocaust read it is my pleasure to introduce a special evening. Before we begin tonight id like to say a few words about the Museum Museum of jewish heritage is a leading New York Institution dedicated to fighting antisemitism and bigotry. For more than 20 years, the museum has challenged visitors intellectually, a rigorous understand the ways in which the humanization of the people can involve deeply destructive and area and engaging with history, people of all ages and backgrounds inherit our mission to never forget you and to combat intolerance that endures to this day. If youre interested in receiving any information of upcoming events, please join our mailing list, a sign in sheet can befound at the admissions desk. I also invite you to become a member of the museums community, we are honored to have you with us tonight to celebrate the
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