James Snyder - 216 - Alain Elkann Interviews

Alain Elkann Interviews

James Snyder was Deputy Director of MoMA from 1986 to 1996. He then led the Israel Museum in Jerusalem through 22 years of dramatic growth, securing its stature as one of the world's foremost museums. In 2023 Snyder became Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director of the Jewish Museum in New York, which has been located in the former Warburg Mansion at 1109 5th Ave at 92nd Street since 1947. The Jewish Museum maintains a unique collection of nearly 30,000 works of art and archeology, ceremonial objects, and media reflecting the global Jewish experience over more than 3,500 years......

"We are all foreigners, wherever we are. Even at home, we are foreigners."

"....an important point about the history of the region is to understand how, during the Ottoman Empire, there were not countries but rather cultures...."

"...there does not have to be a disconnect between your core identity and your cultural identity."