Director’s Talk: James S. Snyder in Conversation with Edmund de Waal

Thursday, September 17, 2026•6:30 PM

James S. Snyder, Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director, speaks with author and Jewish Museum collection artist, Edmund de Waal, whose work tehillim (2018) is included in the upcoming exhibition Sacred Splendor: Jewish Ritual Art and Christian Treasures from St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. De Waal is an artist who writes whose work is about the contingency of memory: bringing particular histories of loss and exile into renewed life.

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