10 Facts About Karl Katz

Karl Katz was an art historian, curator and museum director.

Karl Katz held positions at the Jewish Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Karl Katz graduated from Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then began studying at Long Island University, but soon moved to Columbia University.

Karl Katz finished his Doctoral dissertation on early Hebrew texts from Yemen, but he failed to do the doctorate because he did not fulfill the prerequisites for the required language skills.

Karl Katz refused to learn German so soon after the Holocaust.

Karl Katz was married to Elizabeth Segal, whom he married in 1978.

Karl Katz worked in 1953 as an art educator during the exhibition "From the Land of the Bible" at the Metropolitan Museum.

Karl Katz then joined the Bezalel National Museum as a curator, a forerunner of the Israel Museum.

Karl Katz was one of the planners of The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot.

For many years Karl Katz was the deputy chairman of the museum curatorium.