Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. founded the Wolfsonian museum in 1986 to showcase his own collection of more than 70,000 objects from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries with emphasis on furniture and the decorative and propaganda arts. The collection also included paintings, rare books, prints, and ephemera. In 1997, Wolfson donated the collection to the State of Florida and the Wolfsonian became part of Florida International University. Valued at $80 million, this is considered to be the largest gift ever made to a state university in Florida and the fifth largest to a public university nationwide.

Included are items of Jewish interest, including prewar Jewish pop-up greeting cards printed in Germany and postcards printed in Vienna. Also featured are imprints by Jewish members of the Bauhaus, and woodcuts and etchings by American Jewish artists. The book collection includes Hebrew poetry from Argentina; a Hebrew typography catalog published in Berlin in 1924; a children's book in Yiddish; and a 1920s book published in Palestine with poetry and silhouettes of early kibbutzniks.

Information courtesy of Florida Division of Historical Resources, a division of Florida Department of State.

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