Скачать или смотреть Long-hidden synagogue mural restored, relocated

(16 Aug 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Burlington, Vermont - 29 July 2022
1. Various of mural inside Ohavi Zedek Synagogue
2. Senior Rabbi Amy Small walking past
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rabbi Amy Small, Ohavi Zedek Synagogue:
"The Nazis destroyed the synagogues across Eastern Europe, and we had so many devastating losses as a Jewish community. So, to be able to see this whole, restored is also about how we are feeling whole and restored."
4. Various of mural
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rabbi Amy Small, Ohavi Zedek Synagogue:
"We are a country of immigrants and as a country of immigrants, our diversity, the safety that America offered our families fleeing from many parts of the world -- for us and the Jewish community, largely from Eastern Europe -- but for other peoples from other places. That's all signified by this mural, because this was an immigrant piece of art."
6. Various exteriors of Ohavi Zedek Synagogue
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Aaron Goldberg, President of The Lost Mural Project:
"The estimates are that there were stone synagogues, or brick synagogues; there were also over 700 wooden synagogues in Lithuania, of which it's estimated that 500 had murals like this. And there's one that survives in Lithuania now. We have the other one here, which is an incredible story."
8. Close of Congressional Record certificate
9. Close of plaque hanging at synagogue
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Philadelphia - 28 July 2022
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Josh Perelman, Chief curator and Director of exhibitions and interpretation at Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History:
"What I learned about the mural and what it is and the story behind the artist, you know, I was completely amazed and... there is nothing like this elsewhere in this country. It is certainly, you know, a representation of a style that was present throughout Europe. But I'd never heard of anyone bringing that style to the United States. And therefore, you know, it makes it both a treasure and also a significant work, both in American Jewish religious life and the world of art in this country."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Burlington, Vermont - 29 July 2022
11. STILL image of mural inside synagogue
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Aaron Goldberg, President of The Lost Mural Project:
"It was largely supported by more than a third of individual donations, about a third of business donations and another third of foundations. So, this is not just a foundation-led project. This is really a incredible piece of work, a monumental effort by many, many hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of donors."
13. Various of Goldberg showing photographs of mural during removal process from earlier location
STORYLINE:
A mural that was painted in a Vermont synagogue more than 100 years ago by a Lithuanian immigrant — and hidden behind a wall for years— has been termed a rare piece of art and has been painstakingly moved and restored.
The large colorful triptych painted by sign painter Ben Zion Black in 1910 shows the Ten Commandments with a lion on both sides, the sun beaming down, and columns and rich curtains at the borders. Now known as the "Lost Mural," it's a rare representation of a kind of art that graced wooden synagogues in Europe that were largely destroyed during the Holocaust, experts say.
"When I learned about the mural and what it is and the story behind the artist, I was completely amazed, and there is nothing like this elsewhere in this country," said Josh Perelman, chief curator and director of exhibitions and interpretation at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.  
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