CATEGORY

Europe Pre-WWII

A Living Connection: Photographs from the An-sky Expeditions, 1912-1914

This exhibition in the Book Center's main repository explores the groundbreaking work of S. An-sky, who, at the turn of the twentieth century, launched the Jewish Ethnographic Expeditions, traveling throughout what is now Ukraine to collect materials about Jewish cultural life.  Photographs are from the Museum of the History of Religion, St. Petersburg, Russia.

 

They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust (closed)

This exhibit was on display at the Yiddish Book Center April 18 - September 26, 2010.

This traveling exhibition was organized by the Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow, and was curated by scholar and folklorist Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.

The Dubiecko Klezmer Folio

by Hankus Netsky

Bringing the sounds of Dubiecko back to life after 72 years.

Yidishe eṭnografye un folḳlor (Yiddish Ethnography and Folklore)

View Abraham Rechtman’s memoir of S. An-Ski’s ethnographic expedition in the Pale of Settlement, with illustrations and photos of old houses, synagogues, gravestones, and folk art motifs.

Mr. Hollender's Opus

by Hankus Netsky

The cultural legacy of Morris Hollender: Auschwitz survivor, baal tfile (lay cantor), and extraordinary source for all aspects of Jewish traditional culture.