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Photo Essay: A culture connected by Mah Jongg

Posted by | Sep 5, 2016 |

The Chinese tile game Mah Jongg has brought together the Jewish-American community since the 1920s. The Jewish Museum Milwaukee recently finished hosting the traveling exhibit Project Mah Jongg: An Exhibition Honoring the Memories, Legacy and Charms of the Game.

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Read the article and view the photo essay that were produced as companion features for this news report.

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Lee Matz

A Milwaukee native, Lee worked internationally for years as an award-winning foreign correspondent and photojournalist based in Asia. He was also the first war correspondent from Wisconsin to report from Ukraine in 2022. Lee proudly uses MCTS as the exclusive mode of transportation for covering all his local news reports.

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