Join the Jewish Museum and IIJS for a book talk on Jewish Country Houses, featuring authors Dr. Juliet Carey and Abigail Green in discussion, moderated by IIJS Co-Director, Rebecca Kobrin. This event will take place on Thursday, March 27, at 6:30 PM at the Scheuer Auditorium at the Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Avenue at 92nd Street.

Hear Juliet Carey, Senior Curator at Waddesdon Manor and Abigail Green, Professor of Modern European History, University of Oxford, discuss their new book, Jewish Country Houses, a project that situates the estates of wealthy Jewish families as a significant aspect of European Jewish heritage and material culture. Their research spans British historic manors to Modernist villas in Czech cities, exploring the different ways Jewish families used architecture, art, and entertainment as a means of assimilating with broader European society. 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. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing after the talk. Please find more details,

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.