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Contemporary Jewish Museum
February 26 - March 24, 2015Info
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Ze’ev Aleksandrowicz. Jewish friends in the centre of Kraków, the mid-1920s, 1932–1936. 17 9/10 x 17 9/10 in; photograph. Poland and Palestine: Two Lands and Two Skies.
An exhibition of portraits made in the 1930s by photographer Ze’ev Aleksandrowicz (b. 1905, Krakow; d. 1992, Tel Aviv). After his death, his family discovered his life’s work—over 15,000 negatives. These images show their subjects in two distinct cultural contexts—in the streets of Kraków and in distant Palestine. In turn, the photographs become the starting point for telling stories about the relationship between these two worlds, full of contrasts and contradictions.
Organized by the Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow.