IDA PEARLE AND JOSEPH CUBA ARCHIVES FOR SOUTHERN JEWISH HISTORY

In April 2022, The Breman announced the appointment of Casey Fishman as the new Director of Archives. Casey brings with her a wealth of experience in the museum and archives profession having held positions at the Jewish Museum of Florida, The Jewish Museum in New York, Boston’s Carter School, and the Archives of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. She holds a B.A. in Art History from Columbia University, a B.A. in Jewish Literature and an M.A. in Jewish Art and Visual Culture from The Jewish Theological Seminary, and an M.A. in Art Therapy from Lesley University. Her expertise, enthusiasm and forward-looking vision will continue to propel the Cuba Family Archives forward as a significant repository for Southern Jewish history.

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Jews of Color in Early America with Professor Laura Leibman | Presented in partnership with the Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia and Atlanta Jews of Color Council

Expanding Access to History

Last year The Breman’s Oral History Project brought in additional project team members who are transcribing and cataloguing new oral histories from our Children of Holocaust Survivors project, Legacy Project, Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta, Absence of Humanity project, and the World War II Jewish Soldiers project. In addition, we partnered with the Council of American Jewish Museums (CAJM) for their first cohort of the Collecting These Times oral history project where we documented stories from Atlanta Jews about the pandemic. Now, we are partnering with CAJM again for the second cohort of Collecting These Times to document stories that reflect the current political and social climate of the Atlanta Jewish community. We anticipate this project will allow us to diversify our oral history collection and make it more inclusive and representative of the entire Atlanta Jewish population.