Barbara kirshenblatt-gimblett wikipedia
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is a scholar of Performance and Jewish Studies and a museum professional.!
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
American academic
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (born September 30, 1942, in Toronto, Ontario) is a scholar of Performance and Jewish Studies and a museum professional.
Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University, she is best known for her interdisciplinary contributions to Jewish studies and to the theory and history of museums, tourism, and heritage.
American academic.
She is currently the Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition and Advisor to the Director at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.[1]
Biography
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett was born in Toronto, Ontario, during the Second World War, and raised in Toronto's downtown immigrant neighborhood during the immediate postwar years.
Both of her parents were Jewish and were born and raised in Poland. Her mother came to Canada from Brześć nad Bugiem in 1929 and her father from Opatów in 1934. She attended Orde Street Public School and Northview Heig