02:00pm - 04:00pm  Lithuania to Brooklyn: Preserving a Family Collection & History

Speaker: Diana Korzenik Co-sponsored with the Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative Brooklyn native Dr. Diana Korzenik first conceived of her book, Lithuania to Brooklyn, The Rabbi Daniel and Minnie Shapiro Family, as a way to preserve and document her collection of her maternal grandparents’ family objects now in New York’s Yeshiva University Museum. In that process she uncovered facts about the treasures — and the pains — of her grandparents' and parents’ lives, revelations that signal a departure from her family’s years of silence about the Old World, so familiar to many immigrant families. Dr. Korzenik will first detail her learning how to preserve her ...