Summer Reading

Here is a little something to read as you soak up the sun this weekend.

It is a wonderful preview in the Wall Street Journal of Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges, our new exhibit which opens next week at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Intrepid reporter, Lucette Lagnado, who is also the author of the vivid memoir The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, interviewed several of the people whose stories are told in the exhibit. I think she really captured the close relationships and unique bonds between the black students and Jewish professors that lasted a lifetime.

Seen here: Prof. Lore Rasmussen with her students picking cotton on a field trip. Read the article for more information about Prof. Rasmussen's innovative teaching style.