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Leadership Support for digital media at The Contemporary Jewish Museum is generously provided by the Jim Joseph Foundation.
Commissioned as the first temporary exhibition at the new POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, the immersive audiovisual art installation Letters to Afar, created by internationally acclaimed Budapest-based filmmaker and video-artist Péter Forgács in collaboration with the New York City-based band The Klezmatics, revisits, rearranges, and recontextualizes rare amateur movies made by Jewish immigrants from the United States who visited their hometowns in Poland during the 1920–30s alongside official newsreels and Polish cinema of that time.
Letters to Afar on view February 25–May 25, 2015.
Leadership Support for digital media at The Contemporary Jewish Museum is generously provided by the Jim Joseph Foundation.
Letters to Afar was commissioned by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, with video installation by Péter Forgács and music by the Klezmatics. Patron Sponsorship for The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s presentation is provided by an Anonymous Donor, Gaia Fund, Righteous Persons Foundation, the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture, and Anita and Ronald Wornick. Major Sponsorship is provided by the David Berg Foundation and Siesel Maibach. Participating Sponsorship is provided by Shelli Semler and Kyle Bach.
Major support for The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s exhibitions and Jewish Peoplehood Programs comes from the Koret Foundation.