![]() Although the school is a Christian university, Roosa said it’s a place “confident enough in its own beliefs to be ecumenical.” He envisions Pepperdine’s libraries as “a 21st century place of ideas presenting all points of view.” Pepperdine’s dean of libraries, Mark Roosa, is extremely excited about hosting “Traces of Memory” at Payson. “We want to make a wider impact through future events as well.” “Right now, we’re focusing on developing a Jewish studies minor ,” Golbert said. The exhibition, which continues through April 25, is the first program of its kind for the Glazer Institute the show and the events around it represent an ambitious slate, the kind of programming the Glazer hopes to continue producing in the future. Photos by Chris Schwarz, courtesy Galicia Jewish Museum. “There’s a direct engagement with a photo that doesn’t require being mediated by a professor … it captures the imagination.”Ī beautifully decorated, meticulously restored 18th century synagogue in Lancut, Poland. She loves the idea of using photography to get students interested in the subject of the When Rebecca Golbert, the associate director for public cultural programs at the Glazer Institute, heard that Webber had published a book featuring photographs from the exhibit and that it would be traveling to the United States from its permanent display at the Galicia Jewish Museum, she knew she had to bring “Traces of Memory” to Pepperdine. I wanted to ask how we deal with the reality of that past today,” Webber said. “The whole point was to say to people that this is a contemporary reality, not something so remote and distant that it’s like the Middle Ages. ![]() “It dawned on me that there was something more expressive about a synagogue completely in ruins than a plaque saying that a hundred Jews had been massacred here.” Working with photojournalist Schwarz, Webber explored the area of southern Poland known as Galicia in search of places and images that would speak to people alive today. To Webber, the idea of using contemporary photographs as a way to look at the Holocaust seemed like a no-brainer. Featuring haunting photographs of eerie, rubble-filled sanctuaries and snow-covered tombstones, “Traces of Memory” seeks to show what a vibrant civilization left behind when it was forcibly snuffed out, and how it has withered - or been restored - in the years since. Jonathan Webber, a British social anthropologist and a professor at the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, and the late photographer Chris Schwarz spent more than a decade documenting and photographing Poland’s ruined synagogues and cemeteries, and now “Traces of Memory,” an exhibition of their work, is making its West Coast debut at Pepperdine University’s Payson Library, in partnership with the school’s Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish Studies. ![]() The Jews of Poland may be mostly long gone, murdered by the Nazis or escaped to the safer confines of Israel or America, but the echo of their civilization remains, frozen in time for all to see.
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