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The Harry Spindel Memorial Lecture Presents Deborah Dash Moore: "Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York"

by Office of Stewardship

Lecture Open to the Public

Tue, Oct 24, 2023

7:30 PM – 9 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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Walkers in the City showcases the distinctive urban vision that working-class Jewish photographers produced on New York City’s streets and in public spaces in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on their experiences, Deborah Dash Moore offers a perspective on New York as seen through their eyes—a cityscape of working-class people. With their cameras, these photographers pictured Gotham’s abrasive social milieu and its evanescent textures and light, creating an archive of vernacular images of city life and a distinctive tradition of street photography that would be widely imitated. Walkers in the City documents how these roving, imaginative New Yorkers, entranced by the medium of photography, transformed everyday sights into rousing, joyous, and poignant moments of time, creating visual poetry out of the fabric of social life.

Deborah Dash Moore is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.  A historian of American Jews, she specializes in twentieth-century urban history. Her forthcoming book, Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York (2023), extends her interest in urban Jewish history to photography. Currently she serves as editor in chief of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, a ten-volume anthology of original sources translated into English from the biblical period to 2005, selected by leading scholars.

Sponsored by the Harry Spindel Memorial Lecture Fund.

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