Exhibition Opening: "Born at the Beth: Newark's Jewish Hospital since 1901" (Jewish Historical Society of MetroWest [JHSMW])

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----- Original Message -----
From: "McGillan, Jennifer" [JMcGillan@JHSMW.ORG]
Date: Thursday, August 11, 2005 12:18 pm
Subject: EXHIBITION OPENING: "Born at the Beth: Newark's Jewish Hospital since 1901" 
(Jewish Historical Society of MetroWest [JHSMW])

EXHIBITION: "Born at the Beth: Newark's Jewish Hospital since 1901"
(Jewish Historical Society of MetroWest [JHSMW])

Opening Reception: Sept. 15, 2005, 7 PM, at the Alex Aidekman Jewish
Community Campus, 901 Route 10 East, Whippany, NJ 07981. Speakers for
the evening: Robert R. Max, President, Jewish Historical Society of
MetroWest, Lester Bornstein, former President NBIMC and member of the
JHSMW Board of Trustees, Lester Z. Lieberman, Chairman of the Healthcare
Foundation of New Jersey and Marc E. Berson, Chairman of the Board of
Trustees, NBICM. Refreshments will be served. PLEASE RSVP BY SEPT. 1 to:
Linda Forgosh, JHSMW Curator/Outreach Director at lforgosh@jhsmw.org or
973-929-2994.

Exhibition dates: September 15- November 18, 2005, at Alex Aidekman
Jewish Community Campus, 901 Route 10 East, Whippany, NJ 07981. Future
dates and locations TBA. Tours are available BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. If you
are interested in a tour or in hosting this exhibition, please contact
JHSMW Curator/Outreach Director Linda Forgosh at lforgosh@jhsmw.org or
973-929-2994.

Humanities Week Tours: Come celebrate Humanities Week with us! Tours of
the exhibition are available to the public for free on the following
dates and times:
Sunday, October 16 10 AM and 2 PM
Monday, October 17 10 AM and 2 PM
Tuesday October 18 10 AM and 2 PM
Friday October 21 10 AM and 2 PM
Sunday October 23 10 AM and 2 PM

Please reserve a place on these tours by contacting JHSMW
Curator/Outreach Director Linda Forgosh at lforgosh@jhsmw.org or
973-929-2994.

About the Exhibition:

"Born at the Beth" pays visual tribute to all the individuals who
founded, funded and grew a Jewish hospital in the City of Newark more
than 100 years ago.

Newark Beth Israel Hospital is one of sixty Jewish hospitals founded in
cities around America. Cincinnati, in 1850, and New York's Jews'
Hospital in 1852, later Mount Sinai Hospital, were the first two.
Newark's Jewish community was not large enough or wealthy enough to
support a hospital in 1850. A steady influx of immigrants would change
that.

Through photographs, artifacts, video documentary, and memorabilia,
"Born at the Beth" attempts to answer such questions as why Jews opened
hospitals in the first place, and how Beth Israel grew and survived such
crises as the Great Depression and World War II shortages. Among its
lists of medical firsts, Beth Israel is credited for the discovery of
the Rh factor, responsible for the first successful implant of a nuclear
battery-operated pacemaker and site of New Jersey's first heart and lung
transplants. Now a world-class medical center, Newark Beth Israel merged
with Saint Barnabas Health Care System in 1996 and the proceeds from the
sale of Beth Israel established The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey.

This, ultimately, is the story of a family business, or what we
affectionately term the Beth family. Two, three and four generation
doctors and dentists have interned, volunteered or worked at Beth
Israel. Husband and wife teams have practiced at the Beth. Likewise, two
and three generations of a family have volunteered or been employed at
Beth Israel.

Thousands of MetroWest residents claim they, too, were born at the Beth
and enjoy the benefits of being part of such a remarkable legacy.

This exhibition is brought to you by the Jewish Historical Society of
MetroWest, a subsidiary agency of the United Jewish Communities of
MetroWest and a recipient of a General Operating Support grant from the
New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State.
Additional support has been received from Dr. Victor Parsonnet, The
Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey, the Jerome and Sarah Zellar
Foundation, Schering-Plough, the Hirschhorn Conservation/Preservation
Endowment, the Daniel and Ruth Shiman Memorial Fund, the Lillian and
Saul Schwarz Memorial Endowment, the Sam Hollander Endowment, Sandra
Heinberg, Betty and Sheldon Fienberg and Marlene Gold Astman. Humanities
Week Tours (Oct. 15-22) are sponsored by the New Jersey Council for the
Humanities.


Jennifer McGillan
Archivist
Jewish Historical Society of MetroWest
901 Route 10 East
Whippany, NJ 07981
(973) 929-2995

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