Past Shtetl, Present Poland

Co-Sponsored with the Center for European Studies

Location: Center Hall, Busch Campus Center
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Screening of short film shot by Rutgers undergraduate students in Opatów, summer 2007.

Brief talks by Rutgers faculty about the Polish town Opatów and its Jewish past Apt.
Jan Kubik, Political Science
Jeffrey Shandler, Jewish Studies
Nancy Sinkoff, Jewish Studies

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University, will present her father’s illustrated memoir about Apt in the 1920s and 1930s: They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood Before the Holocaust (2007).

The program is part of “The European Village”, a 2006-2007 project developed and
coordinated by the Rutgers Center for European Studies.