Today i visited the Museum of Florida Jewry in Miami. It was easy to find and just tucked behind Ocean Drive around 3rd st. Nice building, classic deco and a front of building security guy who was strictly 21st century. Probably important to have heavy security, noit everyone wishes us well. Nor, apparently did earlier generations of locals. Indeed much of the museaums' treasures focus on discrimination and oppression. Swathes of exhibits are concerned with the injustice meted out to a certain Leo Franke who was imprisoned and subsequently lynched for a murder he could not possibly have committed i.e he was a nice Jewish boy!
The museum itself is lovely and is run by a group of women who all look like aunts of mine. In fact when I saw the guide I thought she was my Auntie Yentl risen from her tomb. She even talked incessantly like Yentl with a sort of 'old country' accent and manner that cries out to be oppressed. These people do a great job and I enjoyed myself a lot. If you accept their video presentation Florida was build from Jewish blodd, sweat and tears. Just to even stuff up a bit I should pop into a Cuban museum.
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