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Reversing Oblivion

Monday Jan 8, 2018 6:30pm
Film and Discussion

Presented by Center for Jewish History, Jewish Studies Program of Cornell University, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research & Leo Baeck Institute


Admission: $10
CJH/partner members, Cornell alumni, seniors, students: $5

 

The New York City premiere of this documentary film brings us to the filmmaker’s discovery of her grandparents’ confiscated pre-World War II estate and her own German Jewish heritage, and records the work of a Cornell University architecture team to design creative new uses for the site. With filmmakers Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, and Cornell Architecture Professor Aleksandr Mergold. Reception to follow.