Glass Plates of Lublin Dybbuk Shnipeshiker Cemetery and the YIVO

Shnipeshiker Cemetery and the YIVO Institute—are among the film’s highlights

and their experiences living as Jews under Communism

Yet historians and participants themselves have overlooked their contributions as Jews

with albums on Elektra

charts Mel Brooks’s meteoric rise from a Depression-era kid in Brooklyn to the recipient of the National Medal of Arts

Glass Plates of Lublin Dybbuk Shnipeshiker Cemetery and the YIVOPublished by our own White Goat Press, the large format, hardcover book includes hundreds of stunning photographs made from glass plates unearthed from a trash pile in a tenement house in a former Jewish section of Lublin, Poland. From the dirty and sometimes broken tiles emerge the faces of Jews and Poles, children and the elderly, young couples flirting, workers, athletes, dignitaries in tails, and anonymous people who posed for a camera long ago,