Memories of the Shtetl Leibowitz Professor in Music

Leibowitz Professor in Music

along with the other materials found in 2017

Praise for 100 Objects

the book traces YIVO’s role in documenting key moments in modern Jewish history and culture through its 100 years of collecting

How do we honor such memories while keeping them from consuming us

Memories of the Shtetl Leibowitz Professor in MusicFormat: DVD Director: Harriet Rita Semegram In the late 1930s, Samuel Rothbort (1882 1971) began creating memory paintings of his native Walkovisk, a small village in Czarist Russia. Eventually numbering over five hundred, Rothborts paintings have become lauded as a cultural resource depicting life in a predominantly Jewish village, commonly known as a shtetl. Their nostalgic sense of wonder and joyous colors have challenged many observers notions of