There Was A Forest: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today

Start date: Friday, October 30, 2009
Event is ongoing: Until Sunday, November 15, 2009

In conjunction with a semester-long series of programs at SMU on the Holocaust and its legacies, the Hawn presents an exhibit of works by Fort Worth-based photographer/artist Loli Kantor. Born in Paris, France, and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, Kantor is the daughter of Holocaust survivors, both of whom she lost by age 14. Biographical research into her parents’ background led Kantor to study and photograph Jewish culture in Poland and Ukraine. There Was a Forest documents the parallel stories of the lives of a disappearing population of Jews still living in small enclaves in Eastern Europe and the simultaneous, slow reemergence of Jewish life and culture that is gradually transforming some of the larger communities there today. The exhibit is co-sponsored by the Meadows School of the Arts and the SMU Human Rights Education Program.