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The Status Bar: March 19, 2020
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Physical museum is CLOSED; Digital museum is OPEN.
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Did you know that our original exhibit Beyond Chicken Soup: Jews and Medicine in America is available as a virtual tour?
Step inside the gallery and get up close and personal with this exhibit that explores not just history, but the impact medicine has on our lives today. An appropriate topic for kicking off our Pandemic series, don't you think?
Once you've explored the gallery exhibit, we invite you to check out the Explore section of the Beyond Chicken Soup website for even more great content that didn't quite fit into the exhibit gallery.
 Some of my personal favorites include the "What's On Your Plate" and "Fitness Fads" series. If you're looking for a few deeper reads, you can also check out excerpts from the Beyond Chicken Soup catalog!
If you want to get your own copy of the full catalog, reach out to Chris Sniezek at Esther's Place and he can get a copy in the mail to you!
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Feeling housebound?
We’ve been serializing the diaries of Grace Hecht, Baltimore socialite, as she travelled across the globe in the 1930s and 40s. The most recent addition to the series finds Grace in Colorado.
But if you haven’t had the time until now to read the series, this would be a great week to binge blog.
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Online Events of Interest
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Free Streaming Watch Party:
STATELESS
Thursday, March 19, 2020
at 7:00pm
Following the documentary watch party will be a Q-and-A with director Michael Drob!
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Nightly Met Opera Stream:
Eugene Onegin
Sunday, March 22, 2020
at 7:30pm
Conducted by Valery Gergiev, starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
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Jewish Women's Archive: Quarantine Book Club
A Bend in the Stars
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
at 8:00pm
Enjoy a virtual book talk with author Rachel Barenbaum about her novel A Bend in the Stars, presented by JWA and Judaism Unbound!
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Director Marvin Pinkert just finished Food Fights and Culture Wars. He says it contains a number of amazing pieces of food history – from carp to cannibalism – but suggests that it’s not a book you want to read before dinner.
At the recommendation of Deputy Director Tracie Guy-Decker, Marvin is also making his way through The Price of Whiteness, a critique of Jewish identity in America especially with respect to race. You may recognize the author, Dr. Eric Goldstein as the co-author of On Middle Ground.
For those of you who can’t get to a library...and that’s all of you... Marvin reports that both books are available on Kindle. We also recommend you check out the Library Extension app for your browser, which will show you what e-books are available through your public library!
What are you reading this week? Let us know on Twitter or Facebook!
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