The story (so far)

I created this blog to recount a fantastic journey I recently undertook with my father, to visit our family's place of origin. My grandfather, Joseph Schechter, was born in a small village in a province of the Austro-Hungarian empire known as Galicia. This area is now divided between Poland and Ukraine. In October, 2010, my father and I traveled to the city of L'viv in order to find this village, and learn a little bit about the lives of Jews here prior to World War II. I took multiple photographs, and kept a journal (handmade by Kristen Crane). What you'll see here are transcriptions of my journal entries.

Friday, April 8, 2011

You might be interested to see this...

I found a nice set of photos of Poland and Ukraine from Harvard professor of psychology, Steven Pinker. He's written a great deal about language and brain development.  He's also got a much better eye for taking photos than I do. Some of his pictures cover similar territory - Warsaw, L'viv, rural life in contemporary Galicia, etc. Also notable are his amazing photographs of the synagogue in Zamosc, Poland, a former shtetl very near the Ukrainian border. Check out his great work HERE.
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