Glass Plates of Lublin Dybbuk Shnipeshiker Cemetery and the YIVO

Shnipeshiker Cemetery and the YIVO Institute—are among the film’s highlights

Nineteenth-century Hebrew and Yiddish literature tempered romantic love with the claims of family and community

with albums on Elektra

and private archives

Yet historians and participants themselves have overlooked their contributions as Jews

Glass Plates of Lublin Dybbuk Shnipeshiker Cemetery and the YIVOPublished by our own White Goat Press, the large format, hardcover book includes hundreds of stunning photographs made from glass plates unearthed from a trash pile in a tenement house in a former Jewish section of Lublin, Poland. From the dirty and sometimes broken tiles emerge the faces of Jews and Poles, children and the elderly, young couples flirting, workers, athletes, dignitaries in tails, and anonymous people who posed for a camera long ago,