In addition to featuring an exhibition space dedicated to video and new media, the Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Center houses a digital library of 100 radio and television programs from the Museum's National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting. The Media Center opened in 2003 as part of the recently reinstalled third floor galleries of Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey.
Goodkind Media Center
Photo: David HealdBroadcast archive selections in the Media Center include such comedy favorites as "How to Be a Jewish Son," a panel discussion from a 1970 David Susskind Show featuring the incomparable Mel Brooks; a 1947 radio drama entitled "Operation Nightmare" starring John Garfield and Al Jolson, produced by the United Jewish Appeal to call attention to displaced persons in postwar Europe; contemporary television documentaries on black-Jewish relations, Latino Jews, Jewish feminism,
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Melissa Shiff (Canadian, b. 1967)
Elijah Chair, 2002
Antique chair, video
Purchase: Susan F. Zinder Gift
2003-26 
