CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.

For decades, Dr. Manuel Gottlieb (1909-1972) and Doris Gottlieb Brickner (1921-2021) played an outsized role in the cultural life of New York City and in the Jewish community at-large. Gottlieb, a dental surgeon and educator, was a graduate of the Columbia University College of Dentistry and had been a visiting professor of dentistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Turin and the Melli University in Iran. Brickner dedicated her life to social causes and helped found the Community Synagogue in Sands Point, New York, the American Jewish World Service, the American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece and the Gomez Hill House in Newburgh, NY. In 1981 she also raised funds to support the excavation of a catacomb outside the town of Venosa, Italy. Brickner understood the role that ancient art played in educating younger generations about their past. Speaking of her great-grandchildren Brickner remarked, “Recently, I let them hold an ancient statue from my archaeology collection, which gave them a sense of awe and Jewish history. I’m trying to create memories for their future.”