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In the early twentieth century, Jewish cabinetmakers from Eastern Europe played a pivotal role in the emerging market for antiques and their reproductions.

The award-winning New England author will speak with Ryan J. Woods about his celebrated work Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War as part of the Boston Public Library’s Baxter Lecture series “promoting commemorative and public understanding of the history of the settlement of and immigration to New England.”

This webinar features items of mourning from the our archives, including letters of condolence, coffin plates, mourning jewelry, embroidered memorials, and more from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.