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 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.
