New work by Ronen Eidelman
by David Gutherz · 07/08/10
Ronen Eidelman is an artist with roots–to borrow from a popular lyric–on several sides of the sea. Born in New York, based in Tel Aviv, with an MFA from Bauhaus University in Germany, Ronen’s new project attempts an imaginative re-rooting some of Lublin’s dispossessed Jews. In a gesture at once critical and elegiac, Ronen has “returned” a number of photographs of Jews from all walks of life to the houses where their subjects once lived. Each photo is accompanied by a question, which directs itself both to the observer and observed.
Also, for some creative contrast, check out this video posted on Tablet: three generations of an Auschwitz survivors family (including the survivor himself) dancing to some Gloria Gaynor.
I found this interesting. My dad’s original name in Polish was Ajdelman (pronounced Eidelman). & he was from a shtetl about 30 min. from Lublin on the Lublin River. We had one cousin in NYC but don’t know their names/whereabouts. The conflux of an Eidelman putting up these pix in the area my dad grew up was amazing to read about.