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JSA Spring Forum | An Immigrant Family’s Influence: How My Parents, Uncle, and I Made Memorable Cultural Contributions

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When:
May 26, 2024 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
2024-05-26T14:30:00-07:00
2024-05-26T16:30:00-07:00
Where:
Peretz Centre
6184 Ash Street
Vancouver
Cost:
$5.00
Contact:
604-732-1555
Email
Jewish Seniors Alliance

JSA is delighted to present our annual Spring Forum: An Immigrant Family’s Influence: How My Parents, Uncle, and I Made Influential Cultural Contributions with Ben Shneiderman.

Sunday, May 26th at 2:30 p.m.
At Peretz Centre – 6184 Ash Street, Vancouver
Cost: $5.00  |  Refreshments Included 
Free Underground Parking

Join Ben Shneiderman as he explores the influential lives of his parents, journalists Samuel and Eileen Shneiderman, in the turbulent times leading up to World War II, as well as his uncle, legendary photojournalist, David Seymour (Chim). Inspired by their examples, Ben became a computer scientist and technology innovator, shaping widely used commercial products.

Ben Shneiderman

Eileen Shneiderman (1908-2004) and Samuel L. Shneiderman (1906-1996)

David Seymour-Chim, (1911-1956)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coming from Poland, the Yiddish journalism of my parents, (Samuel L. Shneiderman (1906-1996) and Eileen Shneiderman (1908-2004), in France, Spain, and then New York, had great impact as did the photojournalism of my legendary uncle (David Seymour-Chim, 1911-1956, Home page) in the turbulent times leading up to World War II. Then coming to North America, they resumed their work in new surroundings with new languages. Inspired by their examples, I became a computer scientist and technology innovator, shaping widely used commercial products, even as I moved to Vancouver.

 
My parents’ English and Yiddish work is currently receiving attention and fresh translations, such as the English translation of their 1938 Yiddish book Journey into the Spanish Civil War (to be published in June by the Yiddish Book Center’s White Goat Press). They are featured in a new website, A Vital Partnership, of the U.S. National Museum of American Jewish History and our family story is at a second website. My uncle’s photography Is held by the U.S. Library of Congress and will be shown at an exhibit opening in July at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Holocaust Education Center.
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