BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Sander Stadtler, President,
is Founding and Managing Principal of Stadtler, Rosenblum and Saris, an accountancy corporation established in 1980. He is the past international president of ACPA International, an association of independent accounting firms. An active member of the San Francisco Jewish community, Mr. Stadtler serves on the Boards of Congregation Kol Shofar and Sinai Memorial Chapel, and previously on the Boards of the Jewish Vocational Service, Congregation Beth Shalom, the Bureau of Jewish Education and the ‘J’ newspaper.

Seymour Fromer, Vice President,
is the Director Emeritus and Founder of the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, CA. He is also the Former Director of the Jewish Education Council of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties as well as the Former Chairman of the Landmarks Commission of the City of Berkeley.

Pamela H. Stein, Secretary,
is Founder and CEO of Clientize.com Inc., an internet marketing company serving the publishing marketplace. With 25 years' experience in the information industry and electronic publishing, Ms. Stein has designed an Internet software solution for magazine and newspaper publishers.

Wayne Feinstein
is a Senior Vice President with Capital Guardian Trust Company and served 18 years as CEO of three of the nation’s largest Jewish nonprofit organizations (including the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation). During these years he led innovation in community service and programming, and left a legacy of unprecedented fundraising and grant making achievements. He also created innovative strategies and programs in leadership development and training as well as community development within the US and in countries across the globe.

Alexander Lauterbach
is a retired businessman living in Los Angeles. He previously served on the Boards of the Textiles Association of Los Angeles and Adat Ariel Temple. He is a member of the Judaica Collectors Club of LA and serves as the translator of Polish documents for The Arthur Szyk Society.

John Rothmann
is a political and foreign policy consultant specializing in the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. Mr. Rothmann serves as a talk show host on the ABC-Affiliated KGO-AM Newstalk radio in San Francisco and is a sought-after lecturer in the Bay Area. He has worked on numerous Presidential and local campaigns and was one of the founders of The Raoul Wallenberg Jewish Democratic Club.

Dr. Charles S. Syers, President Emeritus,
is Associate Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at both The University of California School of Dentistry and the University of the Pacific School of Dentistry. Dr. Syers and his family relocated from Michigan to California in 1968, when Dr. Syers became Chief of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at French Hospital Medical Dental Center. Dr. Syers has served on the Boards of Allied Savings Bank and The Greater Bay Area Alzheimer’s Association.

Irvin D. Ungar, President Emeritus, Curator,
is Founder and CEO of Historicana, a rare book and manuscript business based in Burlingame, CA. A former Rabbi, Mr. Ungar is also a specialist in historic Judaica and exhibition curator for The Arthur Szyk Society. He has curated exhibitions at the Library of Congress, the Spertus Museum, the Judah L. Magnes Museum, and served on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s curatorial team for a Szyk exhibit. Mr. Ungar is the author of numerous publications including the book Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk (1998).

HONORARY BOARD

Mrs. Alexandra Szyk Bracie
is the daughter of Arthur Szyk. Mrs. Bracie was born in Lodz, Poland in 1922. She spent the first years of her life living with her family in Poland, France and England. In 1940, the family moved to the U.S. and settled in New York City. Mrs. Bracie enjoys speaking about her father as a guest lecturer around the country.

Honorable Tom Lantos (D-CA)
Before his untimely death in February 2008, Congressman Lantos was serving his thirteenth term in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was first elected to Congress in November 1980 andÊwas the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in the U.S. Congress. Mr. Lantos was born in Budapest, Hungary and escaped from a labor camp during WWII. In 1983, he founded the Congressional Human Rights Caucus and servedÊas its Co-Chairman until his death. In conjunction with the Library of Congress exhibition Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom (Nov. 1999), Congressman Lantos entered a tribute to Arthur Szyk into the Congressional Record.

John Pawlikowski
Dr. John T. Pawlikowski is an acclaimed theologian at Catholic Theological Union (CTU) in Chicago. He is internationally recognized as one of the leading authorities on Social Ethics and Christian-Jewish relations. Father Pawlikowski is the leading advocate for Holocaust education in Catholic schools in America and he has published extensively about the Holocaust. Father Pawlikowski presently serves by appointment as the Chair of the CTU Academic Committee and on the Committee on Conscience. He also chairs the Church Relations Committee of CTU.

Art Spiegelman
is an illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist who received the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for his Holocaust narrative, Maus, based on the experiences of his parents as concentration-camp survivors. In 1980, Spiegelman founded RAW, an avant-garde comics magazine, with his wife Francoise Mouly, and was a staff artist and writer for The New Yorker (1993-2003). In 2002, Mr. Spiegelman offered commentary in the audio tour of The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and credits Szyk for having an influence on his work. His latest publication, In the Shadow of No Towers was published in September, 2004.

Paul Von Blum
is a senior lecturer in African American Studies, Communication Studies, and Art History at UCLA. A long-time activist in the civil rights movement, he was personally involved in several of the historical events that he teaches about in his classes. He has won several University of California Distinguished Teaching Awards and has published numerous books and articles. Von Blum earned his J.D. from Univeristy of California, Berkeley, where he also taught for 11 years before joining the UCLA faculty 25 years ago. Von Blum's Visual Communication and Social Advocacy course is only one of several classes into which he has incorporated Szyk's art.

Elie Wiesel
is a Holocaust survivor and author of 36 works dealing with Judaism, the Holocaust, and the moral responsibility of all people to fight hatred, racism and genocide. Elie Wiesel has lectured at colleges around the country and has been Andrew Mellon Professor of Humanities at Boston University since 1976. In 1978 he was appointed Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council by President Jimmy Carter, and in 1985 he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement by President Ronald Reagan. In 1986 Wiesel received the Nobel Prize for Peace.