A Living Lens: The Never-Before-Seen Forward’s Archives

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For the first time in its 110-year history, the archives of the Jewish Daily Forward were opened to create this newly released photographic chronicle of Jewish life. The Forward’s Samuel Norich shares images (and the stories behind them) from Lower East Side pushcarts, a shtetl beauty contest, and labor rallies to unexpected gems such as Harry Truman’s haberdashery, Rabbi Schachter-Shalomi explaining Kabbalah to the Dalai Lama, and a New Orleans synagogue flooded by Hurricane Katrina.

Samuel Norich is executive director of the Forward Association, and publisher of the Forward and the Forverts. He currently serves as vice president of Ameinu (formerly the Labor Zionist Alliance) and on the boards of the American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters Museum, the Jewish Labor Committee, and the Claims Conference. He is a graduate of Columbia University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at the University of Wisconsin.

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“LAST DAYS OF THE FOUR SEASONS”

A new photo-documentary exhibit exploring the final years of a unique Catskills bungalow colony built by and for Holocaust survivors has just been completed and is being prepared for publication and touring.

 Through lush large format photographs, audio oral histories and text, it takes a counter-intuitive upbeat approach as it explores the lives of the lodgers of this thirty-year old yet nearly extinct community.  Set against the backdrop of the fading Catskills colonies of yesteryear, it addresses themes of Holocaust survivors, positive living for the elderly, and the Jewish American experience.

 For more information on the exhibit, or the artist , Rick Nahmias, please contact info@rcnphoto.com.

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