Photographs of the Depression: a Jewish Angle

In this online virtual session, historians Beth Wenger and Deborah Dash Moore show how photographs shed light on history. Special emphasis will be placed on photographs in AJHS’s collection, particularly those of JB Lightman, a social worker who set out to document a disappearing Jewish Lower East Side.











When: Thu., May. 21, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Where: American Jewish Historical Society
15 W. 16th St.
212-294-6160
Price: Free
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In this online virtual session, historians Beth Wenger and Deborah Dash Moore show how photographs shed light on history. Special emphasis will be placed on photographs in AJHS’s collection, particularly those of JB Lightman, a social worker who set out to document a disappearing Jewish Lower East Side.

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