Memories of the Shtetl “Non omnis moriar…” (“Not all

“Non omnis moriar…” (“Not all of me shall die”)

Praise for 100 Objects

Memories of the Shtetl features a selection of oil and watercolor paintings by Rothbort

and recitations to elaborate choral settings and familiar congregational melodies

Caplan’s explication is innovative and insightful

Memories of the Shtetl “Non omnis moriar…” (“Not allFormat: DVD Director: Harriet Rita Semegram In the late 1930s, Samuel Rothbort (1882 1971) began creating memory paintings of his native Walkovisk, a small village in Czarist Russia. Eventually numbering over five hundred, Rothborts paintings have become lauded as a cultural resource depicting life in a predominantly Jewish village, commonly known as a shtetl. Their nostalgic sense of wonder and joyous colors have challenged many observers notions of