Faces
of Jewish Rochester 5767 |
The Faces of Jewish Rochester was a photographic project undertaken by Professor Michael Peres. Peres attempted to photograph all
22,500 Jews that call Rochester, New York home. The work was undertaken during the Jewish year of 5767 and was
part of the JCC's centennial celebration. Individuals were photographed as groups as a strategy to create larger assemblies. At the completion of the 12 month project more than 80 organizations had been photographed, which
may include more than 5500 people. |
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Yiddish Folk Shule, "Shlomo's Dream",
April 3, 1926, Rochester, N.Y._ |
____OnStage camp reunion, December 27, 2006, Rochester, N.Y. |
The Faces
of Jewish Rochester was a collaborative project proposed and endorsed
by The Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester New York and Michael Peres a
professor of photography at The Rochester Institute of Technology.
The work was inspired by two seemingly unrelated activites which included Peres
being the photographer for the JCC book The Future Begins with the Past and a visit he made to the US Holocaust Museum in the fall of 2005. |
This project was principally inspired
by the Tower
of Faces gallery in the United
States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. The project hoped to create a photographic archive of Rochester's Jews by
photographing between the dates of September 23, 2006 and concluding September 13, 2007 which represented
the Jewish lunar year of 5767. |
[Photographer's
Statement]
Gallery
of Photographs
80
organizations were photographed
including:
| Auxiliary of the Jewish Home of Rochester B’nai B'rith Bowling League B’nai B'rith Lodge Board of Temple B'rith Kodesh Brotherhood of Temple B'rith Kodesh Chabad Lubavitch Lag B'Omer Picnic Chabad Lubovitch Congregation Beth Haknessess Hachodosh Beth Hamedresh - Beth Israel Board of Trustees Congregation B'nai Israel - Ahavas Achim Congregation Light of Israel Congregation Temple Beth El Congregation Temple Beth Shalom Congregation Temple Emanu El CongregationTemple Beth Am Derach Hatorah Hillel School Students & Staff Irondequoit Hebrew Studies Center Students Jewish Community Center Camp Sisol Jewish Community Center Camp Yeladim Jewish Community Center Centennial planning committee Jewish Community Center Day Care Program students & staff Jewish Community Center Gesher winter break program Jewish Community Center The OnStage Camp Jewish Community Center The OnStage Camp Reunion Jewish Home of Rochester, New York Residents Jewish Women International Kauffman Post #14 Jewish Family Service of Rochester, New York - Board Knights of Pythias Lipman's Kosher Market Matzah Factory |
Melton School Graduation Class Men in Transition Men's Club of Temple Beth El Na'amat National Council of Jewish Women - Oscar Night National Council of Jewish Women - Board ORA Academy ORT Rochester Board of Rabbis Rochester Community Photograph Rochester Jewish Chorale SCOR Summit of Brighton Rochester, New York - Residents Sunday Morning Softball Players Students of theTalmudic Institute Temple Beth David - Board of Temple Beth David - Sisterhood of Temple Beth David - Sunday minyan group Temple Beth El - 5K Race Temple Beth El - Hebrew School Temple Beth El - Sisterhood Temple B'rith Kodesh - Executive Committee Temple B'rith Kodesh - Sisterhood Temple B'rith Kodesh Hebrew School Classes Temple B'rith Kodesh Brotherhood Congregation Temple Etz Chaim & Hebrew School Temple Sinai - Hebrew School Session one Temple Sinai - Hebrew School Session two Wolk Manor, Rochester, New York Residents Torah Studies Faculty of theTalmudic Institute Women's Council Young Women's Haddassah |
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