Prof. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and University Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University. She was honoured for lifetime achievement by the Foundation for Jewish Culture, received an honorary doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the 2015 Marshall Sklare Award for her contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry. She was recently decorated with the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland by the President of Poland for her contribution to POLIN Museum. She currently serves on Advisory Boards for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Council of American Jewish Museums, Jewish Museum Vienna, Jewish Museum Berlin and Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, among others.
Select publications
Monographs
Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage, Berkeley 1998.
As an editor
(with Jeffrey Shandler) Anne Frank Unbound. Media, Imagination, Memory, Bloomington 2012.
(with Jonathan Karp) The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times, Philadelphia 2008.
(with Mayer Kirshenblatt) They Called Me Mayer July. Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust, Berkeley 2007.
(with Lucjan Dobroszycki) Image before My Eyes. A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864–1939, New York 1997.