Sal Robinson
Sal Robinson, Lucy Ricciardi Assistant Curator of Literary and Historical Manuscripts, the Morgan Library and Museum
A graduate of Columbia University, where she specialized in early modern English literature, Sal Robinson worked in publishing for ten years as an editor for international literature at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Melville House. She received her MLIS from Long Island University in 2015 and worked as an archivist and cataloger for a number of New York arts and cultural organizations, including PEN America, the American Academy in Rome, the Keith Haring Foundation, and the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. She started at the Morgan Library & Museum as a cataloger on the Leon Levy project in 2016 and moved into a curatorial role in 2019. In 2021, she was named the inaugural Lucy Ricciardi Assistant Curator in the department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts.
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Breaking the Mold: Kafka’s Unexpected Love for Yiddish Theater
In organizing an exhibition, curator Sal Robinson always has a moment when she discovers an intriguing angle and suddenly wants to devote the entire exhibition to that topic alone. In the course of working on the exhibition Franz Kafka for the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City, that moment came when she learned how Kafka became a devotee of Yiddish theater and that his profound engagement with this world immediately preceded his own literary breakthrough that led to The Metamorphosis. In the end, Robinson knew she couldn’t make the whole exhibition about the influence of the Yiddish theater on Kafka’s life and work, but she did include a Yiddish theater poster among the extraordinary holdings in the Franz Kafka exhibit, which runs through April 13, 2025. Read more from Robinson here.