Irene Lewisohn
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Irene Lewisohn was a Jewish philanthropist whose devotion to the arts led to the formation of the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Museum of Costume Art (now part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art).
5 September 1892
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Irene Lewisohn was a Jewish philanthropist whose devotion to the arts led to the formation of the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Museum of Costume Art (now part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art). That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Laurie Sokol, and the entry is linked below.
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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Laurie Sokol
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Irene Lewisohn was a Jewish philanthropist whose devotion to the arts led to the formation of the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Museum of Costume Art (now part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art).
Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Laurie Sokol
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