Memories of the Shtetl and recitations to elaborate choral

and recitations to elaborate choral settings and familiar congregational melodies

Memories of the Shtetl features a selection of oil and watercolor paintings by Rothbort

along with the other materials found in 2017

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the book traces YIVO’s role in documenting key moments in modern Jewish history and culture through its 100 years of collecting

Memories of the Shtetl and recitations to elaborate choralFormat: DVD Director: Harriet Rita Semegram In the late 1930s, Samuel Rothbort (1882 1971) began creating memory paintings of his native Walkovisk, a small village in Czarist Russia. Eventually numbering over five hundred, Rothborts paintings have become lauded as a cultural resource depicting life in a predominantly Jewish village, commonly known as a shtetl. Their nostalgic sense of wonder and joyous colors have challenged many observers notions of