Glass Plates of Lublin Dybbuk and their experiences living as

and their experiences living as Jews under Communism

Nineteenth-century Hebrew and Yiddish literature tempered romantic love with the claims of family and community

Yet historians and participants themselves have overlooked their contributions as Jews

in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history

this film intermingles old and new

Glass Plates of Lublin Dybbuk and their experiences living asPublished by our own White Goat Press, the large format, hardcover book includes hundreds of stunning photographs made from glass plates unearthed from a trash pile in a tenement house in a former Jewish section of Lublin, Poland. From the dirty and sometimes broken tiles emerge the faces of Jews and Poles, children and the elderly, young couples flirting, workers, athletes, dignitaries in tails, and anonymous people who posed for a camera long ago,