Letters to afar
Subtitle: video installation by by Péter Forgács with music by The Klezmatics : [exhibition cat.] Museum of the History of Polish Jews 18.05 - 30.09.2013, commissioned by Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the YIVO Institute for Jewish. Research : exhibition organized with financial support of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
By: [transl.: Dominika Gajewska, Maria Zawadzka]
Contributors: Forgács, Péter; Gajewska, Dominika; Zawadzka, Maria; Klezmatics (Musical group); YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; Polska. Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego
Publisher: Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Warsaw
Language: eng
Translated from: pol
Number of pages: 61
ISBN-13: 9788392838067
Subjects: Jews; Exhibitions
Other titles: Listy do tych co daleko; Katalog wystawy (Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich ; Warszawa ; 2013)
Description: The exhibition presents the life of Polish Jews as captured in prewar films made by American Jews during return visits to their birthplaces.
Notes: The footage used comes from the collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish. Research in New York, the National Film Archive in Warsaw, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Beth Hatefutsouth in Tel Aviv and the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive in Jerusalem.