CHAPTER 41––Museum Pieces In 1941 (1944)
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
When Frieda moved into a duplex apartment at 1 East Eighty-Eighth Street, she couldn’t bear to see the old house razed. In 1944, on the seventy-third anniversary of Felix’s birth, she bequeathed the Gothic structure that her father feared would precipitate Manhattan pogroms to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America for its Jewish Museum. It was a logical recipient, Felix having served as a director and founder of the museum in 1904.
chapter: 41 - Museum Pieces