PopUp Exhibition: Mira Amiras on the Future of a Legacy
Channel: magnesmuseum
Date: 2016-10-31

Dr. Mira Amiras, Professor Emerita of Comparative Religious Studies, San Jose State University, received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the daughter of the founders of the Judah L. Magnes Museum, Seymour Fromer and Rebecca Camhi Fromer. Her presentation will focus on her experience growing up with one of the premiere Jewish museum collections as her sibling, and include excerpts of her current film project,The Day Before Creation: The adventures of Malkah, in search of the penultimate question.
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The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
University of California, Berkeley
magnes.berkeley.edu