Hands-on and Head-first into History: Interview with YIVO Archives Intern Lana Adler
Lana Adler, a recent graduate of Hamilton College, is assisting Acquisitions Archivist Leo Greenbaum in the YIVO Archives. Editor Roberta Newman interviewed her recently about her experiences as an intern. Read more…
From the Pages of Yedies by Roberta Newman
As the end of World War II drew near, attention began to shift to what might immediately follow in the postwar era. While the full magnitude of the destruction of Jewish life in Europe was still beyond the grasp of most observers, it was clear to those who were planning for the future that massive resources would need to be marshaled to care for survivors of Nazi genocide. Read more…
Histories Private and Public
Talking with Péter Forgács about Letters to Afar
by Marjorie Backman, Bright Lights Film Journal, August 2013
To evoke the dramatic sensation of experiencing Poland’s once large Jewish population in its full vitality before the Holocaust, filmmaker Péter Forgács selected expressive gestures from vintage home movies in the 2013 installation Letters to Afar. He slowed down the footage, duplicated it on multiple screens, and created 12 orchestrations.
It all started with a klezmer band in New York City. The lead singer for the Klezmatics, also the sound archivist at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, explored the possibility of scoring music for some rare silent films in the collection: footage shot by American Jewish immigrants visiting their native Poland in the 1920s and ’30s. Read more...
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