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Seymour Fromer, founder of Magnes Museum, dies

Oct 26th, 2009
by Frances Dinkelspiel.
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Seymour Fromer, who founded the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley in the early 1960s, died early Sunday after a short illness. Fromer, 87, and his wife Rebecca started the museum in response to what they saw as California’s lack of knowledge of its Jewish heritage. Starting with a few objects and a display case [...]