Roberta Newman
Consulting Services
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Institutional Clients:
- Acoustiguide
Writer of scripts for audio-tours for museum exhibitions: Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater (The Jewish Museum, 2008), They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland (The Jewish Museum, 2009), and Modern Voices (selected clips only, permanent exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, 2009)
- Atran Foundation
Concept developer, researcher, and project coordinator for 24-page organizational history: The Atran Foundation: Celebrating Fifty Years Of Philanthropy (1996)
- Center for Jewish History
Producer of www.jewsinamerica.org (Jews in America: Our Story) and www.lettersfront.org (Letters from the Front: Jewish War Heroes), a web site about the contribution of Jewish soldiers to the Red Army's victory in WWII (2003-2005)
- Chicago Historical Society
Photo Researcher for exhibition, Becoming American Women (1994)
- The Emma Goldman Papers Project
Researcher and translator of Yiddish newspaper articles (1990s)
- Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)
Writer and photo researcher for Let My People Go, a web site on the history of the Soviet Jewry emigration movement (2007)
- Jewish Communal Service Association
Producer and writer of institutional web site and electronic newsletter (2003-2004)
- Living Traditions, Inc.
Writer of grant proposals (1994)
- Luboml Exhibition Project
Associate Curator and video producer of traveling exhibition, Remembering Luboml: Images of a Jewish Community (1994-1997)
- National Yiddish Book Center
Research consultant for permanent exhibition (1999)
- Oxford University Press
Illustrations research for 9 college-level history books (2008-)
- Thirteen/WNET
Senior Producer of DVD-ROM, Heritage: Civilization and the Jews, and editor of accompanying teacher's resource guide (1997-2000)
- United Jewish Communities
Writer of voiceover script for Operation Promise, fundraising video for $160 million campaign (2005)
- The Vilna Project
Researcher, production consultant,and grant proposal writer for forthcoming documentary film (1990s; 2003)
- Wagner Labor Archives
Cataloger and writer of inventory of photographs of The Records of the Jewish Labor Committee (1996)
- Yale University Press
Illustrations rights clearance for forthcoming 10-volume The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization (2008-)
- Yiddish Radio Project
Early project development and grant proposal writing for NPR radio series (1994-1996)
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Producer and webmaster of institutional web site (2000-2004), and producer of web site, People of a Thousand Towns (2003). Illustrations Editor of The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (YIVO/Yale University Press, 2008) and consultant for forthcoming online edition.
Other Projects:
- Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime
Translator of Yiddish documents for book (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2006)
- The Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and Their Salons
Archival researcher for gallery videos for Jewish Museum exhibition (2004-2005)
- A Coat of Many Colors: Immigration, Globalization, and Reform in New York City’s Garment Industry
Photo researcher for book (Fordham University Press, 2005)
- The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania
Photo editor for book (Yale University Press, 2002)
- A Life Apart
Archival researcher for documentary on Hasidic Jews in America (1997)
- Turning Points
Archival researcher for videos for permanent exhibition, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (1996)
- America and the Refugees
Archival researcher for exhibition video, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (1996)
- Grant proposal writer for independent filmmakers Ira Wohl and Beverly Peterson (1992-1996)
- In the Fiddler's House
Archival researcher for Emmy award-winning Great Performances program, Thirteen/WNET (1995)
- To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and Los Angeles
Photo researcher for book (The Free Press, 1994)
- Endings and Beginnings: A Midrash on the Jewish New Year
Associate Producer (Capital Cities/ABC, 1993)
- To Give Them Light: The Legacy of Roman Vishniac
Archival consultant for book (Summit Books, 1992)
- Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds
Archival consultant for book (Schocken Books and the Museum of Modern Art, 1991)
- The American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan
Bibliographical researcher for book (New York University Press, 1990)
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