Edward Serotta is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker who was born in Savannah, Georgia. He specializes in Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe, and since 1991 has been the director of the Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation (Centropa, www.centropa.org), a not-for-profit organization in Vienna that uses advanced technologies to preserve Jewish memory. He is the author of three books, Out of the Shadows (1991), Survival in Sarajevo (1995), and Jews, Germany, Memory (1996), which have had accompanying exhibitions.
The Street was my father’s life. He was a commission merchant in Washington Market, contracting for crops from farmers in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, California, Texas, and just about everywhere…
The Lebanon War of 1982 began on 6 June, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon after repeated attacks and counter-attacks from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) operating in southern Lebanon…
“The State of Israel is a distant dream,” said Jeremiah, “and my dream is close by.” I knew, of course, what he meant, but I wanted to continue talking about the subject that preoccupied me more than…