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About Seymour Fromer
- Seymour Fromer (October 3, 1922 – October 25, 2009) was an American co-founder of the Judah L.
- Magnes Museum in Berkeley, California.
- Fromer co-founded the museum, which houses 11,000 Jewish artifacts, one of the largest collections in the United States, with his wife, Rebecca Fromer, in a Berkeley mansion in 1962.
- He remained the director the Judah L.
- Magnes Museum until his retirement in 1998.Fromer was born in the Bronx on October 3, 1922.
- He attended both Brooklyn College and Columbia University for his education.
- He worked as a school administrator in New Jersey, before moving to the Los Angeles area in the 1950s.
- He later moved to Oakland, California.Seymour Fromer died at his home in Berkeley, California, on October 25, 2009, at the age of 87.
- He was survived by his wife, Rebecca Camhi Fromer, their daughter, Mira Z.
- Amiras, and two grandchildren.
- Rebecca Fromer died in January 2012.
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