Memories of the Shtetl Leibowitz Professor in Music

Leibowitz Professor in Music

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

“Non omnis moriar…” (“Not all of me shall die”)

along with the other materials found in 2017

and recitations to elaborate choral settings and familiar congregational melodies

Memories of the Shtetl Leibowitz Professor in MusicFormat: 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