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James S. Snyder
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american director and historian”. Today it says “american art historian and museum director”.
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American art historian This article is about the museum director and art historian. James Stewart Snyder is an American art historian and museum director. He is director emeritus of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and a senior fellow at the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was executive chairman of the Jerusalem Foundation . In 2023, Snyder was named director of the Jewish Museum in New York.
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american director and historian
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american art historian and museum director
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