Nowinski, Ira
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Ira Nowinski is an American photographer of Polish and Hungarian Jewish descent. Born ca. 1942 and raised in New York, he was the first person in his family born in the United States. At the age of 42, he was prodded by opera singer Regina Resnick to do a photo essay around the Jewish milieu. He had previously done photo essays of the North Beach, San Francisco, area, of the evacuation of elderly citizens from hotels in the South of Market area of San Francisco, and of the Southeast Asian Community in the same city. In addition, he had been the staff photographer of the San Francisco Opera since 1978.
Working first with Resnick and then with Seymour Fromer of the Judah L. Magnes Museum, Rhonda Abrams of the Anti-Defamation League, Anita Friedman of Jewish Family & Children's Services, and the Northern California Board of Rabbis, Nowinski began documenting the Jewish experience in the San Francisco Bay Area. One of his first projects was to document Soviet Jews who had immigrated during the 1970's and 1980's.
He also photographed the Karaite Jewish Community in Foster City. The Karaites were a Jewish community that had lived for nearly 500 years in Egypt. The Arab-Israeli war resulted in the expulsion of the Jews from Egypt at the conclusion of that conflict. Many subsequently immigrated first to Israel and then to Northern California. Nowinski retraced their migration route in reverse, first photographing Karaites in Foster City, California, then in Israel, and finally in Egypt.
Nowinski and Sybil Milton of the U.S. Holocaust Museum did a joint work on the Holocaust Memorials throughout Europe, Israel, and in the United States. This work, entitled "In fitting memory : the art and politics of Holocaust memorials" combined text provided by Milton with Nowinski's photographic essay of the monuments documenting the millions of Jews who lost their lives under the Nazi regime.
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Musicians
Singers
Poets, American
Beat generation
Jewish cemeteries
Chumash Indians
Coffeehouses
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in art
Indians of North America
Jewish epitaphs
Jews
Jews, Russian
Karaites
Karaites
Opera
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Pomo Indians
Wintu Indians
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Hupa Valley (Calif.)
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Santa Ynes Reservation (Calif.)
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California
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Egypt--Cairo
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Peru
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California--San Francisco
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Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)
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Arizona
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Grinding Rock State Park (Calif.)
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Warsaw (Poland)
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California--San Francisco
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North Beach (San Francisco, Calif.)
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Klamath River Valley (Calif. and Or.)
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Mexico
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Israel
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Santa Cruz Island (Calif.)
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California--Foster City
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Palm Springs (Calif.)
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California--San Francisco
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Illinois--Chicago
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Hopland Indian Reservation (Calif.)
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Clearlake (Calif.)
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Morongo Indian Reservation (Calif.)
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