Curating Culture, Making Memory: On the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews

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The Center for Jewish Studies at the GTU invites you to a free showing of "Raise the Roof," a movie that details the work of Polish artists Rick and Laura Brown of Handshouse Studio to embark on a 10-year pursuit—to reconstruct the elaborate roof and painted ceiling of the Gwozdziec synagogue. By the end of the project, they have done more than reconstruct a lost synagogue: they have recovered a lost world. In 2014, the Gwozdziec roof was unveiled as the centerpiece of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Following the movie Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, chief curator of the permanent exhibition of the POLIN Museum, will speak on “Materializing History:Presenting the History of Polish Jews." We will also hear from Laura and Rick Brown from Handshouse Studio on “Making / History: The Wooden Synagogue Replication Project” and Jeffrey Shandler, Chair and Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers on "The Jewish Museum Effect."

Sunday, April 3, 2016

11:00am — free film screening