Memories of the Shtetl Memories of the Shtetl features

Memories of the Shtetl features a selection of oil and watercolor paintings by Rothbort

" Born in present-day Belarus

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

and recitations to elaborate choral settings and familiar congregational melodies

Memories of the Shtetl Memories of the Shtetl featuresFormat: 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