Seven dozen pieces of ancient Egyptian textiles have been given to the art collection of Queens College’s Godwin-Ternbach Museum in New York City. Dating mostly from the third to seventh centuries C.E., the textiles come from the private collection of artist, psychologist and writer Rose Choron (1917–2014), née Josefowitz, who had emigrated from her native Ukraine in the 1930s to settle eventually in the United States. Choron’s textiles have been showcased several times (including in Jerusalem in 1980), but their problematic provenance may have discouraged museums from acquiring them. While a handful of pieces were auctioned during the past […]
