![]() ![]() Special attention is paid to Sarah Brandon Moses and her ivory miniature, who are the subject of Laura’s latest book Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family (2021) These objects offer intimate and tangible views into the lives of Jewish American women from a range of statuses, beliefs, and lifestyles-both rich and poor, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, slaves and slaveowners. ![]() In this virtual talk, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in the years between 17: a letter from impoverished Hannah Louzada seeking assistance a set of silver cups owned by Reyna Levy Moses an ivory miniature owned by Sarah Brandon Moses, who was born enslaved and became one of the wealthiest Jewish women in New York a book created by Sarah Ann Hays Mordecai and a family silhouette owned by Rebbetzin Jane Symons Isaacs. The Art of The Jewish Family (Bard Graduate Center – Cultural Histories of the Material World, 2020) & Once We Were Slaves (Oxford UP, 2021) Free lecture with Professor Laura Arnold Leibman, Reed College ![]()
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