Sarah Berman is a first year rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. An art historian and archaeologist, she worked for more than 10 years in the curatorial department at the Seattle Art Museum. There, she researched the museum’s permanent collections with a focus on provenance (history of ownership)–especially WWII era–and curated the Ancient Mediterranean and Islamic Art collections, encompassing objects from four continents, ranging in date from 7000 BCE to the present. She has also taught courses in the Jewish community ranging from the archaeology of Israel/Palestine to ethics to Jewish humor. She received her BA and MA from Brown University, and originally hails from Madison, WI.
