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Edward Serotta
American, born 1949 In the Romanian town of
Dorohoi, gentile
children play in the courtyard of the Jewish
family who had recently left for Israel, July 1987,
from the series "In a Timeless Place: Central
Europe and its Jews," 1986-1990
Gelatin silver print
Gift of Lucinda W. Bunnen for the Bunnen Collection,
1995.91.2
Since the mid-1980s, Edward Serotta has
traveled
to eastern Europe to record the survivors of the
Jewish communities decimated by the Holocaust
and Communist oppression. He has said, "I grew
up [as a Jew ] in the American South in the '50s,
so I know what it means to be an outsider."
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