By Joshua Runyan
Henry Mayer, left, of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum joined Rabbi Elkanah Shmotkin, director of Jewish Educational Media; Sarah Stauderman, preservation manager for the Smithsonian Institute; Joshua Harris, chief archivist for the National Geographic Society; and Lucy G. Barber of the National Archives at a reception coinciding with a JEM presentation of its Living Archive, containing more than 4,000 hours of footage of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.
A delegation of archivists representing several U.S. government and private institutions joined several dozen members of Jewish communities in suburban Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., for a rare presentation given by Jewish Educational Media, the Chabad-Lubavitch organization responsible for preserving and disseminating footage of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.
Archival Community Witnesses Film Preservation Effort
By Joshua Runyan
Henry Mayer, left, of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum joined Rabbi Elkanah Shmotkin, director of Jewish Educational Media; Sarah Stauderman, preservation manager for the Smithsonian Institute; Joshua Harris, chief archivist for the National Geographic Society; and Lucy G. Barber of the National Archives at a reception coinciding with a JEM presentation of its Living Archive, containing more than 4,000 hours of footage of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.
A delegation of archivists representing several U.S. government and private institutions joined several dozen members of Jewish communities in suburban Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., for a rare presentation given by Jewish Educational Media, the Chabad-Lubavitch organization responsible for preserving and disseminating footage of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.
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