Sunday, April 26th, 2009...5:20 pm
When Jewish Scholars Fled to the South
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“Friendships like these had a cost in the segregated South. One night in 1942, Prof. Rasmussen and her husband were arrested for dining with an African-American in a blacks-only cafe.Two jail receipts for $28 each from that night, along with Mrs. Madison’s bracelet and dozens of other artifacts, photographs, documents, and paintings are part of an exhibit set to open next week at the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York’s Battery Park City. The exhibit illuminates a period during and after World War II when scores of German-Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany found havens teaching in small black colleges throughout the South.” more@WSJ.com
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