Health service in general arithmetic as we begin thinking collect the could story. So it has been a long process and we have kind of ramped up as we have come home to think about collecting. At what point did you realize this pandemic would stretch into the fall and potential winter . As historians, we have definitely thought about the difficulties inherent in making a vaccine and we were pretty sure this pandemic would last a fair amount of time and we would need to remain at home for some months while a vaccine was being created. They were keeping things week by week in the museum. What have you been doing the last few months . We were planning a history of medicine on the museum. When the pandemic was beginning, we were actually very deep into the planning part of it and meet again to think about changing our exhibits. That meant that we needed to think about collecting related to covid19. We would need to do that anyway because we do collect objects but now it became an imperative
Saturday september 26 on booktv. Welcome to into h lincoln the Online Public program surgeries, a living memorial to the holocaust. My name at samantha shokin, manager of programs and today will be exploring the story of Witold Pilecki, the polish resistance leader who is a subject of the new book the auschwitz volunteer beyond bravery. Out now with harpercollins. We are joined today by author Jack Fairweather a former one report in iraq and afghanistan and the office of a war of choice and the good worker he has served as the Daily Telegraph Baghdad Bureau chief and is a video journalist for the Washington Post in afghanistan. Interviewing jack today is Robert Robert jan van pelt. From 199798 he presided over the team that developed a master plan to preserve visit auschwid participate as an Expert Witness in the famous case against the British Historic author david irving, holocaust tonight. Robert has published widely, serve as a struggle advisor and cultured the Evidence Room which
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Everything im going to say about the relief efforts are in the context of the battle over intervention and antiintervention. I dont think America First has received the attention it deserves. Justice don has done some good work on it. It is usually written off as right wing isolationist organization, but it is a key factor in the Antiwar Movement, along with hoover, who did not belong to America First committee, the quakers, the pacifists, people who were upset about world war i. It is truly the Antiwar Movement to 19. It deserves more attention. Arthur slashing said the battle over intervention was the greatest split in American History except the runup to the american civil war. He said it was greater than the split during the war in vietnam and the anticommunist crusade in the 1950s. I wonder what he might say about that now. Let me go back and show you one more. This is one of the very strong antiwar pieces published during this time. Within this contest, since hoover is an anti in
Of the center for the arts across the street. It was a power station that was converted into a beautiful contemporary building. It has been on this site for almost 12 years and it is about interpreting the contemporary jewish experience, we are constantly looking at what that means, and how do we discuss that. What are the ways in which the Jewish Community sees the arts and that world view as an example. Lovely, and daniel is a famous architect. Yes. And out of europe . Originally from europe. And what are some of the ways in which the museum functions. We are essentially a jewish Art Institution with a jewish point of view. Much of what we show is contemporary art and culture art, and pop art a little bit. This is, for instance right now we have a variety of exhibitions looking at contemporary art, pop culture and jewish history in the bay area. Contemporary Jewish Museum is interesting sequence of the words. I think one of the interesting things about this particular museum it actua