S. Freedman A Treasure Hung for Lost Memories /The New York Times
Books A Treasure Hunt For Lost Memories By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN AUG. 16, 2003 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Email More Save Twenty years ago, an anthropologist named Teresa Porzecanski placed an advertisement in a Jewish newspaper serving this distant compass point of the Diaspora. She was looking for the residue of an unrecorded history, the letters and snapshots of tens of thousands of immigrants from Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Mystified about why a scholar would care for the contents of their closets and bottom drawers, the aging immigrants or their offspring warily came forward,...