Depot Display

Learn More About Spertus Museum Collection Highlights Thursday, July 10 Reception 5:30 pm Lecture 6:00 pm An ongoing series of displays draws from Spertus Museum’s large and varied holdings, highlighting new loans and acquisitions through mini-exhibitions in the first bay of the Open Depot. This summer, a rare and beautiful Torah shield on long-term loan from the Dottheim-Brooks family forms the centerpiece of a small display of Nuremberg silver. The shield is among the oldest in the world and was recently restituted to its owners by the German government. Its story sheds light on the origins of this omnipresent synagogue object and also on the fate of Europe’s Judaica during World War II and its aftermath.

Please join us for a reception to mark this occasion and a lecture by Illana Segal and Dr. Constance Lowenthal to learn more.

Ilana Segal is Assistant Curator of Judaica at Spertus Museum. She also serves as curator of the Rissman Family Kol Ami Museum at North Suburban Synagogue Beth El in Highland Park and at New York’s Central Synagogue.
Constance Lowenthal is a specialized consultant on art-ownership disputes, the former director of IFAR, the International Foundation for Art Research, a nonprofit that works against art theft and forgery. In 1997, Ronald Lauder named her director of the new Commission on Art Recovery of the World Jewish Congress, where, in her three years in that position, 85 works of art taken by the Nazis were recovered.