objects. We knew we couldn't doc-
ument the entire collection so we
tried to select artifacts which
would create a microcosm of
ritual items for home and syna-
gogue," she says.
Much of what was collected in
the Soviet Union was registered
to museum storerooms during
the 70-plus years of Bolshevism.
Even museum curators are often
not aware of what they have.
During a CJA seminar in 1991 in
St. Petersburg, one of the partic-
ipants revealed that in the store-
rooms of a St. Petersburg
museum were the remnants of
the An-Sky expedition — a col-
lection of photographs and arti-
facts depicting the daily life of
Jews in the shtetls of the Ukraine
and Belarus in the years prior to
World War I. This collection is
now on display at the Israel Mu-
seum in Jerusalem and is con-
sidered an invaluable source of
documentation of that period.
The search for Jewish art is of-
ten complicated by the fact that
synagogues which did survive
have been converted to other
uses.
"We are in a race against the
clock," notes Ariella Amar, a mas-
ter's student who heads the cen-
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section. "Synagogues are being
used as warehouses, theaters,
archives, private homes and even
pigsties. Many once-grand syna-
gogues are disintegrating and
others are extremely difficult to
trace without the help of older
residents of the area."
"It's very difficult to conduct
systematic documentation under
these conditions," Ms. Cohen-
Mushlin adds. "But if we don't,
they will be lost forever."
Now that almost no Jews are
remaining in Eastern Europe,
many countries are discovering
their own national roots in Jew-
ish visual art.
"In Poland, Germany the
Ukraine, the Czech Republic,
Belarus, Lithuania and Uzbeke-
stan, there has been an upsurge
of interest in Jewish art among
the non-Jewish population," Ms.
Cohen-Mushlin notes.
"At our fourth international
seminar on Jewish art in May
1994, many of the participants
were non-Jews. Jewish art exists
in almost every country. This is
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