Memories of the Shtetl " Born in present-day Belarus

" Born in present-day Belarus

Praise for 100 Objects

How do we honor such memories while keeping them from consuming us

Rothbort’s paintings have become lauded as a cultural resource depicting life in a predominantly Jewish village

and recitations to elaborate choral settings and familiar congregational melodies

Memories of the Shtetl " Born in present-day BelarusFormat: 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