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Resources
Mayer Kirshenblatt
- Shtetl, a documentary film (1995) by Jack Kuper about Mayer Kirshenblatt and his paintings. VHS and DVD distributed by Cinema Guild. Film clip: Quicktime video
Opatów
- Gershon Hundert, The Jews in a Private Polish Town: The Case of Opatów in the Eighteenth Century. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
- Opatów, Wikipedia
- Memorial book for Apt (Opatów) in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English at Yizkor Books Online, New York Public Library. See also excerpts in English at JewishGen.
Jewish life in interwar Poland
- Image Before My Eyes: A History of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust by Lucjan Dobroszycki and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a book and documentary film.
- Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust edited by Jeffrey Shandler. Yale University Press, 2002.
- Marcus Moseley, Life, Literature: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Interwar Poland. Jewish Social Studies 7, 3 (2001): 1-51.
Shtetl
- Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Introduction, Life Is with People: The Culture of the Shtetl by Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog. Schocken Books, 1995.
- Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Imagining Europe: The Popular Arts of American Jewish Ethnography, in Divergent Centers: Shaping Jewish Cultures in Israel and America, edited by Deborah Dash Moore and Ilan Troen. Yale University Press, 2001, 155-191.
- Remembering Luboml: book, film, exhibition, website
- Novogrudek: The History of a Shtetl
- Radzilow: Memorial to a Once-Vibrant Shtetl
- Szczuczyn
- Wizna
- The Shtetl Economic History Project
- The Shtetl: An Incubator of Jewish Culture (Channel Thirteen curriculum with multi-media resources)
- From Shtetl to Socialism: Studies from Polin edited by Antony Polonski. Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1993.
- Remembering the Shtetl: syllabus
- Jeffrey Shandler, Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture. University of California Press, 2005.
Jewish self-taught artists
- Harry Lieberman: A Journey of Remembrance--book, film.
- Esther Krinitz: Memories of Survival--book, exhibition, film.
- Toby Knobel Fluek, Memories of My Life in a Polish Village, 1930-1949--memoirs, Passover book, exhibition, film.
- Pop Wiener: Naive Painter by Joanne Bock. University of Massachusetts Press, 1974. Available used from http://www.bookfinder.com.
- Morris Hirshfield by William Saroyan, Sidney Janis, Oto Bihalji-Merin, and Franco Maria Ricci. Rizzoli International Publications, 1976.
- Ilex Beller, Life in the Shtetl: Scenes and Recollections. Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1986.
Polish self-taught artists
- Nikifor: book--S̱wiat Nikifora by Aleksander Jackowski et al. Slowo/obraz terytoria, 2005; film, exhibition.
Memory artists
- Rafael Goldchain, Familial Ground
- Melissa Shiff, Postmodern Jewish Wedding
- Eleanor Antin, Man Without a World--book, film
- Lorie Novak, Collected Visions; essay by Marianne Hirsch
- Marianne Hirsch, Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory. Harvard University Press, 1997.
Intergenerational projects
- Art Spiegelman, Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began, 2 vols. Pantheon, 1993.
- Ann Kirschner, Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story. Free Press, 2006.
- Nobody's Business, a film by Alan Berliner
- Hiding and Seeking, a film by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky
- Papa's Diary,the 1924 diary of Harry Scheuerman, transcribed and annotated by his grandson, Matt Unger
- Feed Me Bubbe, Avrom's video podcasts of his grandmother cooking
Storytelling
- Number Our Days: Culture and Community Among Elderly Jews in an American Ghetto by Barbara Myerhoff. Dutton, 1978; film.
- Remembered Lives: The Work of Ritual, Storytelling, and Growing Older by Barbara Myerhoff, edited by Marc Kaminsky. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
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