A CBS News Religious Special, “The Timeless Family,” to be broadcast Oct. 8 (10-11 a.m., ET) on the CBS television network, will deal with Beth Hatfutsoth–the museum of the Jewish diaspora–which recently opened in Tel Aviv.
Produced and written by Alan Harper, and narrated by British actor Marius Goring, “The Timeless Family” examines how the museum has overcome the relative scarcity of physical artifacts (the backbone of most museums) by recreating Jewish life in many lands and centuries through sculpture, art, photographs (by Cornell Capa), recreated objects, dioramas, computers (with information about 3000 Jewish communities), and advanced audio-visual technology.
“The Timeless Family” also includes interviews with Dr. Nahum Goldmann, former president of the World Jewish Congress and one of the museum’s founders; Jessaja Weinberg, the director of the museum; and Karl Katz, head of the museum’s design committee and assistant director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. “The Timeless Family” is a co-production of CBS News and Landseer Productions, Ltd., and will be broadcast in Great Britain on Thames Television some time later this year.
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