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YESHIVA U. MUSEUM WORLD OF POLISH JEWS
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NEW YORK CITY â Yeshiva University Museum announces that its exhibition of prewar photographs of Polish Jews has been extended through September 2 due to exceptional attendance.
On view in New York for the first time, âAnd I Still See Their Faces: The Vanished World of Polish Jewsâ was organized by the Shalom Foundation in Warsaw, and has been shown throughout Europe, South America, Canada and Israel, as well as Boston, Los Angeles, Detroit and Lancaster, Penn. As the home of so many people of Polish ancestry, New York City is the long-awaited venue for this remarkable show.
In the exhibition galleries, more than 150 photographs are mounted on the walls, with the remaining images streaming on a video monitor. In addition, 9,000 photographs are being archived at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
The photographs date from the late Nineteenth through the first decades of the Twentieth Century, providing an intimate view of the everyday activities of Polish Jews prior to the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland. Rather than focusing on the devastation that ensued in the coming years, the exhibition offers insight into the rich prewar life enjoyed by the Jewish community.
Recorded Jewish presence in Poland dates back to the Eleventh Century; by 1939, there were more than three million Jews in Poland, the largest Jewish population in Europe at the time. In 1946, the Jewish community of Poland numbered about 250,000; of these, most spent the war years in Soviet Russia.
Yeshiva University Museum is a 15 West 16th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. For information, www.yumuseum.org or 212-294-8330.