Author Talk: Jewish Country Houses
Off-Campus Arts Event
Author Talk: Jewish Country Houses
Hear the authors of Jewish County Houses discuss their new book that explores the different ways Jewish families used architecture, art, and entertainment as a means of assimilating with broader European society.
FREE
The Jewish Museum
March 27, 2025 | 6:30 pm
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Book Details

Jewish Country Houses centers the estates of wealthy Jewish families as a significant aspect of European Jewish heritage and material culture.

Country houses are powerful symbols of national identity, evoking the glamorous world of the landowning aristocracy. Jewish country houses—properties that were owned, built, or renewed by Jews—tell a more complex story of prejudice and integration, difference and connection.

Additional Details

The conversation will be moderated by Rebecca Kobrin, Professor of American-Jewish History and Co-Director of the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia.

Free for Columbia University community members.

Location

The Jewish Museum
1109 5th Avenue (at 92nd Street)
New York, NY 10128

About the Speakers

Abigail Green is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Brasenose College. She is author of the award-winning Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero (Bellknap, 2010) and has published widely on aspects of international Jewish history and European political culture. She is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and the Jewish Review of Books.

Dr. Juliet Carey is Senior Curator at Waddesdon Manor (National Trust / Rothschild Foundation), Before that, she worked at the National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff and at the Royal Collection. She has curated exhibitions and published on subjects including Nicholas Hilliard, Guercino, Jean-Siméon Chardin, Thomas Gainsborough, Gustave Moreau and Gwen John, as well as French drawings, Sèvres porcelain, contemporary ceramics and the history of collecting.

Rebecca Kobrin is the Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History and the Co-Director of the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies Columbia University. She works in the fields of immigration history, urban studies, business history, East European history and American Jewish History, specializing in modern Jewish migration.

Image: Courtesy of The Jewish Museum