History: archeology
Wed 1 Dec 2010
2010
December 2010
Wednesday 1 December 2010
Wed 1 Dec. 15 West 16th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, New York, 10011. 212-294-8330. Yeshiva University Museum - [email][events]
16 mm Postcards: Home Movies of American Jewish Visitors to 1930s Poland August 29, 2010 - January 2, 2011 This exhibition brings to life the landscape of people in Poland through the amateur movies of immigrant American Jews who traveled "back home" to visit their families, friends, and former communities in the 1920s and 1930s. Intended to be viewed by family and fellow landsmen – friends from the Old Country - these films offer a rare, intimate and - quite literally - moving picture of Jewish families, towns and society in pre-World War II Poland. This exhibition is being developed in collaboration with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Center for Jewish History