Meet the Family: A Journey of a Thousand Years at POLIN Museum The JGSLA - Pamela Weisberger Memorial Lecture
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Chief Curator, Core Exhibition POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews [email protected]
Monday August 6, 2018, 6:00-7:30 PM 2018 IAJGS Conference, Warsaw Marriott Hotel
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Warsaw)
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews http://www.polin.pl/en
POLIN Museum core exhibition walkthrough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSry8ilrMmY
POLIN Museum core exhibition self-guided thematic tours: Highlights, Women, Religious Life, Yiddish (download PDF or view online) http://virtualtour.polin.pl/
POLIN Museum Resource Center http://www.polin.pl/en/resource-center
Virtual Shtetl https://sztetl.org.pl/en/ Aheym: The Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories http://www.iub.edu/~aheym/index.php
Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw) http://www.jhi.pl/en
Portal Delet (download the app) http://www.jhi.pl/en/blog/2018-07-17-the-delet-app-is-available
Jewish Historical Institute Genealogy Department http://www.jhi.pl/en/genealogy
Cemeteries and Synagogues
Foundation for Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland http://cemetery.jewish.org.pl/lang_en/
1 Database of tombstones in the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa in Warsaw http://cemetery.jewish.org.pl/list/c_1
Guide to the tombstones designed by Abraham Ostrzega in the Warsaw Jewish cemetery on Okopowa https://zacheta.art.pl/public/upload/mediateka/pdf/59242d3961058.pdf Additional information http://www.polishhistory.pl/index.php?id=17&L=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=4524&tx_ttne ws%5BbackPid%5D=54&cHash=7928c361c7eca73a6a87cbc6020adb2d
Maceva: Litvak Cemetery Catalogue http://www.litvak-cemetery.info/
Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland https://fodz.pl/?d=1&l=en
Jewish Heritage Europe http://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/
Poland
Guides Field Guide to Jewish Cracow and Warsaw http://www.taubephilanthropies.org/files/assets/pdf/2014/FieldGuide-Final.pdf
Field Guide to Jewish Łódź http://www.taubephilanthropies.org/files/assets/pdf/2017/FieldGuide-Lodz-FINAL.pdf
Prewar Films Five cities: films made in 1938 and 1939: Bialystok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilzJAqVlbKE Kraków https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INav8IZNcDg Lwow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAf05zN3jJk Vilna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJGXuEvcFIk Warsaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f0568XOQJ4
Jewish Renewal Deep Roots, New Branches: Personal Essays on the Rebirth of Jewish Life in Poland Since 1989 http://www.centrumtaubego.org.pl/deep-roots-new-branches-personal-essays-rebirth-jewish-life- poland-1989
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York)
“Poland,” YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Poland
2 YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland http://polishjews.yivoarchives.org/
The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections Project https://vilnacollections.yivo.org/
"People of a Thousand Towns":, The Online Catalog of Photographs of Jewish Life in Prewar Eastern Europe http://yivo1000towns.cjh.org/default.asp
Home movies made in Poland before the Holocaust by landslayt in the United States (archived) https://web.archive.org/web/20101214133045/http://cjh.org/16mmPostcards/Special_Features.ph p
The Ruth Rubin Legacy of Yiddish Folksong Recordings https://exhibitions.yivo.org/exhibits/show/ruth-rubin-sound-archive/recordings/the-ruth-rubin- collection
Music
Yiddish Song of the Week https://yiddishsong.wordpress.com/
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