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Jewish Disenfranchisement

Before they were sent to the ghettos and then concentration camps, the Jewish people were systematically excluded from German culture and "othered" in every area of life.

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Jewish Community and Culture

Miscellaneous Community & Culture

A small, rotating selection of the Philipson Collection's vast archive of items highlighting Jewish community and culture.

Jewish Community and Culture

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Jewish Arts and Entertainment

Presentation: Visions of Hope

Watch Gregg's presentation, Visions of Hope: The New York World's Fair 1939, on YouTube.

Jewish Arts and Entertainment

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Presentation: Propaganda & Letters from the Abyss

Watch Gregg's presentation to the Judaica Thematic Sociey about Garman anti-Jewish propaganda long pre-dating the Holocaust, on YouTube.

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Individual Stories

Video: Gregg's Grandfather, "Uncle Louie" Philipson

Watch Gregg's grandfather Louis "Uncle Louie" Philipson's 1960s TV ad for the Philipson Army Navy Store in Utica, on YouTube.

Individual Stories

Jewish Arts and Entertainment

Presentation: Rube Goldberg's Crazy Inventions

View Gregg's presentation to the Austin Lions Club about Rube Goldberg, on YouTube.

Jewish Arts and Entertainment

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Presentation: Dr. Seuss Goes to War

View Gregg's presentation to the American Topical Association about Dr. Seuss's anti-Axis political art, on YouTube.

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Presentation: Holocaust Remembrance Day

View Gregg's Holocaust Remembrance Day presentation to the Dialogue Institute of Austin, on YouTube.

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Jewish Arts and Entertainment

Presentation: Drawn to Action, The Art of Arthur Szyk

View Gregg's presentation to the Jewish Secular Community of Cleveland about the art of Arthur Szyk.

Jewish Arts and Entertainment

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Postal History

Presentation: The Artistic and Philatelic Works of Arthur Szyk

View Gregg's presentation to the American Philatelic Society about Arthur Szyk's philatelic work, on YouTube.

Postal History

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Jewish Arts and Entertainment

Presentation: Reg Manning, The Cactus Cartoonist and More

View Gregg's presentation to the Wichita Postcard Club about cartoonist Reg Manning, on YouTube.

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Presentation: Abracadabra, The Magic of Judaism

View Gregg's presentation about Jewish magicians to the American Philatelic Society, on YouTube.

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