Presenter: Jeffrey Edelstein
Format: Download MP4 video file of Slides with synchronized audio

The instruction to "Go West" also applied to Jewish photographers who moved to America's Heartland from Europe and the big cities of the East Coast to record the lives of fellow Jews living west of the Alleghenies. This new talk, another in the Clued-In series, will look at the work of several Jewish photographers whose studios our relatives may have visited, including Arthur K. Liebich, a Jewish German immigrant who worked in Cleveland and the Cleveland-born Strauss brothers, Julius Caesar who owned a studio in St. Louis and Benjamin who moved west to Kansas City and became the photographer to the stars. We'll look at photographs from other Jewish photographers who worked in Cincinnati, Chicago and west to North Dakota, Arizona and California. Attendees will get tips on how to search for the studios and photographers' bios of their own heartland photos to date the images.