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Writing, editing, research, and production of public history projects,
including documentaries, exhibitions, web sites, and educational DVD-Roms:
- 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, 2008), and Modern Voices (selected clips only, permanent exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, 2009) - Yale University Press
Illustrations rights clearance for forthcoming 10-volume The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization (2008-)
- 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)
- Oxford University Press
Illustrations research for 9 college-level history books (2008-)
- 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)
- Thirteen/WNET
Senior Producer of DVD-ROM, Heritage: Civilization and the Jews, and editor of accompanying teacher's resource guide (1997-2000)
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
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.
- 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)
- National Yiddish Book Center
Research consultant for permanent exhibition (1999)
- A Life Apart
Archival researcher for documentary on Hasidic Jews in America (1997)
- Luboml Exhibition Project
Associate Curator and video producer of traveling exhibition, Remembering Luboml: Images of a Jewish Community (1994-1997)
- 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)
- 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)
- Chicago Historical Society
Photo Researcher for exhibition, Becoming American Women (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)
- The Vilna Project
Researcher, production consultant,and grant proposal writer for forthcoming documentary film (1990s)
Writing & Editing for Non-Profits (Fundraising, Web Sites, Brochures):
Writer and editor of brochures and grant proposals for non-profit organizations and independent media producers, including:
- The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
- United Jewish Communities
- The Atran Foundation
See my client list for more!
Published pieces:
- The Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse University Press, 2005)
Entry on "September 11, 2001"; additional entries.
- Jews of Brooklyn (University Press of New England, 2001)
"Putting on Your Best Face: Brooklyn Jewish Studio Photography in the Mass Immigration Era"
- Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review
"DP Docudrama: Institutional Propaganda and Post-World War II Jewish Refugees" (1994)
- Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review
"Home Movies and the Alte Heym (Old Home): American Jewish Travel Films in Eastern Europe in the 1920s-30s" (1993)
- YIVO Annual
"Pictures of a Trip to the Old Country" (1993)
- YIVO Annual
"Change and Continuity: Photographs of Jewish Children in Interwar Eastern Europe" (1991)
- Judaica Librarianship
"Jewish Film and Jewish Studies" (Review, 1991)
- Yugntruf
"Paradise" (Yiddish poem, 1988)
- Yugntruf
"The Museum of Children's Dreams" (Yiddish poem, 1988. Reprinted in Soviet publication, Sovetish Heymland)
- Israel Horizons
"The Jew as Mouse" (Review of An American Tail and Maus: A Survivor's Story, 1987)
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