Mimi Jessica Brown Wooten

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Mimi Jessica Brown Wooten is a PhD student at the University of Michigan in the history department and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. Her research interests include American Jewish history and the modern Sephardi diaspora.

 

Blog Posts

"In the Ma'abarah" by Ruth Schloss
May 30, 2023

From the Archive: In the Ma’abarah by Ruth Schloss

Deborah Dash Moore and
Mimi Jessica Brown Wooten

The Posen library shares Ruth Schloss's painting of an an immigrant and refugee absorption camp in Israel in the 1950s.

Midtown Manhattan by Rebecca Lepkoff
February 16, 2023

From the Archive: Rebecca Lepkoff, "Midtown Manhattan" (1947)

Deborah Dash Moore and
Mimi Jessica Brown Wooten

The Posen Library shares Rebecca Lepkoff's photograph of a mid-century urban space in motion. 

Topics: Photography
Mental Maps—Involuntary Memory by Penny Hes Yassour
October 13, 2022

From the Archive: Penny Yassour, "Mental Maps—Involuntary Memory"

Deborah Dash Moore and
Mimi Jessica Brown Wooten

The Posen Library shares Penny Hes Yassour's depiction of a 1938 German railway map.

Topics: Sculpture, Holocaust, Social Science
Figurine of woman playing drum
September 1, 2022

From the Archive: Woman Playing Frame Drum

Deborah Dash Moore and
Mimi Jessica Brown Wooten

The Posen Library shares a nearly 3000-year-old figurine of a woman playing a hand-drum.

Topics: Sculpture, Music, Bible
Painting by Siona Benjamin featuring a woman as the body of a menorah, with seven branches coming out as arms
July 25, 2022

From the Archive: 'Tikkun Ha-Olam, Finding Home Series #46' by Siona Benjamin

Deborah Dash Moore and
Mimi Jessica Brown Wooten

The Posen Library shares a painting by Bene Israel Jewish artist Siona Benjamin. 

Topics: Painting, Spirituality and Religious Life

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