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Chicago's Newberry Library picks Holocaust Museum historian as new leader

Chicago's Newberry Library picks Holocaust Museum historian as new leader
Daniel Greene will be the next head of Chicago's Newberry Library. (Joel Mason-Gaines photo)

The Newberry Library’s next president and librarian will be Daniel Greene, a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum historian and curator who previously worked at the Newberry, the Chicago independent research library announced Thursday.

He’ll take over Aug. 19 from David Spadafora, who has run the Newberry as president and librarian since 2005.

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Since 2014, Greene has been exhibitions curator and historian at the holocaust museum, where he curated the museum’s most extensive examination of the role of U.S. residents in the Holocaust, the current exhibition “Americans and the Holocaust.”

“An accomplished scholar devoted to the public humanities, Danny will propel the Newberry forward with both innovative thinking and a commitment to the mission that has sustained us as an institution over the past 132 years,” David Hilliard, chair of the Newberry Board of Trustees, says on the library’s website.

Greene has been a Northwestern University adjunct history professor since 2013 and is the author of “The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity.”

Prior to joining the USHMM, he was director of the Newberry’s Scholl Center for American History and Culture and then its vice president for research and academic programs. He co-curated the 2013 Newberry exhibition “Home Front: Life in the Civil War North.”

Spadafora’s retirement follows the library’s 2018 renovation of the first floor of its headquarters building, a move that successfully aimed to increase public engagement with the institution.

sajohnson@chicagotribune.com

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