Join the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Progam and the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women for a lecture by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Distinguished University Professor at New York University.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett will present “Listening with Love: A Daughter Discovers Her Father’s Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust” Tuesday, April 25, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in Tinkham Veale University, Suite 248.
In her lecture, Kirshenblatt-Gimblett will talk about a moving collaboration between father and daughter; one that is at once a labor of love, a tribute to a distinctive imagination and a brilliant portrait of life.
Mayer Kirshenblatt, born in Opatów, Poland, in 1916, left a remarkable record in both words and images of Jewish life in Poland before the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of an inquisitive boy. His daughter, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, will present his lively paintings woven together with his stories, based on interviews that she recorded with him for more than 40 years, as together, father and daughter recover a lost world.
The lecture will be followed by a film about Mayer’s return to his hometown, Opatów, and how the town received him.
Registration for this talk is available online and must be completed by RSVP by Friday, April 21.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is a renowned scholar of performance studies and Jewish studies, as well as a museum professional. She has served as Distinguished University Professor at New York University since 2002, and is the program director of the core exhibition for POLIN: Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which is located in Warsaw.