It makes sense that a museum depicting a thousand years of Jewish history would be based where the story took place but, somehow, it’s been tough to convince Americans to help fund the Museum of the History of Polish Jews being built in Warsaw. In this episode, NYU cultural anthropologist and museologist Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett discusses Yiddish culture and the core exhibit she’s developing for the museum that will open in the spring of 2013 in Warsaw.