The Times-Picayune: "New exhibit looks at Holocaust survivors who formed a social club in New Orleans"
- May 4
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New Orleans, May 3, 2026- Dave Walker pays a visit to MSJE's special exhibition on the New Americans Social Club of New Orleans
A photograph from 1952, displayed in a section of the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience’s permanent galleries, shows a group of people posing on the front steps of the New Orleans Jewish Community Center. They are members of the New Americans Social Club — European Holocaust survivors who’d made their way to new lives in the American South.
“I remember when I first started working here seeing that and being like, ‘What’s the New Americans Social Club?’ and putting it in the back of my head,” said Michael Jacobs, collections and exhibits curator. “A couple of years later, I’m thinking about my next exhibit. I come back to this photograph, and I’m like, ‘Wow, this would be a really good story.’”