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Essay B‑Sides from The Borscht Belt Earlier this week, Marisa Scheinfeld reflected on how the themes of the Jewish High Holidays relate to her book, The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America’s… Marisa Scheinfeld October 13, 2016
Visual Arts The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film Susan Tumarkin Goodman, Jens Hoffmann, Alexander Lavrentiev
Recommended Reading Capturing a Vanished World: Last Folio by Yuri Dojc & Katya Krausova Posted by Becca KantorLast Folio: A Photographic Memory offers a haunting glimpse into the traces of vanished Jewish life in Slovakia, the first country to… Becca Kantor July 2, 2015
Essay Photographing a Portrait of the American Jewish Community Earlier this week, Alina Bliumis wrote about the American-Russian-Jewish identity crisis and a photography series she shot, along with her partner and… Alina Bliumis May 13, 2015
Essay Addressing the American-Russian-Jewish Identity Crisis, Camera in Hand Alina Bliumis received her BFA from the School of Visual Art in 1999 and a diploma from the Advanced Course in Visual Arts in Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy… Alina Bliumis May 11, 2015
Visual Arts I Live. Send Help: 100 Years of Jewish History in Images from the JDC Archives. Merri Ukraincik; Linda G. Levi, ed.; David Bezmozgis, fwd.
Essay Debating the Term “Concentration Camp” Earlier this week, Eric L. Muller wrote about the photographer Bill Manbo, mass incarceration and Kodachrome, and asked: What does a concentration camp look… Eric L. Muller January 17, 2013
Essay Making It Human Eric L. Muller will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.The question that I am exploring in this series of blog posts is what… Eric L. Muller January 16, 2013
