The CU Art Museum, in conjunction with the Program in Jewish Studies, has acquired more than 100 prints taken by Soviet photographers, many of whom were Jewish. These important works span the gamut of Soviet history with a particular focus on how these photographers encountered World War II and the Holocaust.听Photographers represented in the CU Art Museum鈥檚 Soviet photography collection include:
Max Alpert, Russian (1899鈥�1980);听Dmitri Baltermants, Russian (1912鈥�1990);听Emmanuel Evzerichin;听Olga Ignatovich;听Yakov Khalip, Russian (1908鈥�1980);听Viktor Kinelovsky;听Olga Lander,听Russian (1919鈥�1996);听Mark Markov-Grinberg, Russian (1907鈥�2003);听Mark Redkin, Russian (1908鈥�1987);听Arkady Shaikhet, Russian (1898鈥�1959);听Mikhail Trachman, Russian (1918鈥�1976);听Victor Tyomin;听Vladimir Yudin;听Georgi Zelma, Russian (1906鈥�1984)
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From this material along with generous loans from Teresa and Paul Harbaugh,听David Shneer, Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History, and Lisa Tamiris Becker, former director of the CU Art Museum, curated听Through Soviet Jewish Eyes. The show opened听at the CU Art Museum in Fall 2011 and has been traveling ever since to such sites as the in New York City and will be opening at the in February 2014. 听The show highlights these photographers鈥� work by exhibiting material that shows what the war and the Holocaust looked like through the lens of the 鈥渙ther ally.鈥�
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