The Message, Volume 11, Number 8, October 1983 Page: 3 of 4
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Mollie and Louis Kaplan Museum of Judaica
to Open November 13
Dedication by Rabbi Jack Segal
at eight o’clock in the evening
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(Left to Right) Ben Katz, Executive Director; Anna Cohn, Curatorial Consultant; David Barg, Hortense Katz, Barbara
Goldfield, Miriam Jochim.
efforts coordinated the designs of the architect, the exhibit
designer, and the curatorial consultant. Hortense Katz,
Sisterhood member, and wife of Executive Director, Ben
Katz, has lovingly maintained and cared for the Judaica col-
lection over the past ten years. Katz has rotated their display
in the atrium show cases and has kept them safe all these
years.
This event promises to be one of the highlights in the his-
tory of Congregation Beth Yeshurun. The Judaic antiquities
and the ceremonial objets d’art used in the rituals of the
Jewish life cycle are among the most outstanding in the
United States. The completed museum, with its permanent
collection — Symbols of a Faith and Symbols of a People —
and space for traveling exhibitions, will be a source of pride
and enrichment, not only for present members of Congrega-
tion Beth Yeshurun, but also for future generations and the
entire community.
At long last, after many difficulties and delays, the
MOLLIE AND LOUIS KAPLAN MUSEUM OF JUDAICA
will open on Sunday, November 13. Miriam Joachim, Vice
President of Beth Yeshurun, announced that Selma Leff and
Shirley Warshaw are planning a community-wide open
house that evening from seven o’clock until nine o’clock. The
official dedication by Rabbi Jack Segal will be at eight o’clock.
The opening culminates nearly two-and-a-half years of
planning, research, consultations, and renovations. The hard
work, efforts, and dreams for a museum of Judaica could only
have been completed with the efforts of so many dedicated
people. Barbara Goldfield became chairman of the museum
two years ago when the Board of Beth Yeshurun, in conjunc-
tion with Sisterhood and through a very generous gift from
the Louis Kaplan Family, decided to refurbish the Kaplan-
Weingarten Lounge and to build a permanent museum of
Judaica at Congregation Beth Yeshurun. Goldfield’s tireless
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Congregation Beth Yeshurun (Houston, Tex.). The Message, Volume 11, Number 8, October 1983, periodical, October 28, 1983; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1294223/m1/3/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.