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Personal History: Searching for the Past in Home Movies

Celebrated writers Dani Shapiro and Glenn Kurtz join our series on Letters to discuss their own family films from prewar Poland, the search to identify individuals in the films, and attempts to reconstruct this vanished world. The Shapiro footage of Horodok, Poland, became the basis for the documentary Image Before My Eyes, and the Kurtz family film of a visit to Nasielsk, Poland inspired Glenn Kurtz’s book Three Minutes in Poland, which was voted “Best of 2014” by The New Yorker and National Public Radio.

This event is presented in connection with Letters to Afar, an immersive video art installation co-presented by YIVO and the Museum of the City of New York (October 22, 2014-March 31, 2015). To learn more visit here.











When: Tue., Mar. 10, 2015 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
15 W. 16th St.
212-294-8330
Price: General, $12, YIVO and MCNY members $8
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Celebrated writers Dani Shapiro and Glenn Kurtz join our series on Letters to discuss their own family films from prewar Poland, the search to identify individuals in the films, and attempts to reconstruct this vanished world. The Shapiro footage of Horodok, Poland, became the basis for the documentary Image Before My Eyes, and the Kurtz family film of a visit to Nasielsk, Poland inspired Glenn Kurtz’s book Three Minutes in Poland, which was voted “Best of 2014” by The New Yorker and National Public Radio.

This event is presented in connection with Letters to Afar, an immersive video art installation co-presented by YIVO and the Museum of the City of New York (October 22, 2014-March 31, 2015). To learn more visit here.

Buy tickets/get more info now