Beyond the Forest: Jewish Presence in Eastern Europe, 2004–2012 by Loli Kantor

Listen to our podcast with photographer Loli Kantor here: Luminous black & white and color photographs along with stories and accounts of contemporary Jewish life in Eastern Europe including an essay by Polish art historian and critic Anda Rottenberg. Like a forest recovering from a cataclysmic fire, the Jews of Eastern Europe are drawing on deep roots to regrow their communities in the long aftermath of the Holocaust and decades of Soviet domination. The children and grandchildren of victims and survivors are reconstructing the histories of their families and reviving the forgotten Jewish customs, bringing them forward into the twenty-first century and creating a contemporary culture that would be both familiar and strange to the generation that perished in the conflagration of the Holocaust. Loli Kantor is the daughter of Holocaust survivors who lost nearly their entire families, and her desire to reconnect with her family's history first took her to Poland in 2004. As she