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Article: People of the Book: New director of Sherwin Miller Museum points out the ties that bind.
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- Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK)
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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Byline: James D. Watts Jr.
Oct. 1--Arthur Feldman wants to share Jewish art with all Tulsans, to "show the public how much we all have in common."
Ask Arthur Feldman what he wants to accomplish as executive director of the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art, and he brings up bread.
"It was one of the most famous advertising campaigns of the 1960s and '70s," Feldman said. "There would be these billboards filled with lots of smiling children of all races, all ethnic types, all smiling and holding up slices of rye bread.
"The slogan was, 'You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's Jewish rye bread,' " he said. "The same thing is true ...