Emma Lamm Zorn: Philanthropist, Ethnographer, Woman, Jew 

With Michelle Facos, Professor, History of Art and Adjunct Professor, Jewish Studies, Indiana University. Emma Lamm Zorn was one of Sweden’s most energetic promoters of social equality and regional identity in her adopted province of Dalarna. The wife of Anders Zorn, she helped to establish Sweden’s first regional open-air museum, an orphanage, and a community college dedicated to handicrafts. While the marriage of a peasant’s illegitimate artist-son to the daughter of a prosperous Stockholm merchant was an unusual alliance at the time, both spouses profited from the singular opportunities it presented.
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