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Our work takes three forms.
1. Remembering
a once-thriving Jewish community in Eastern Europe
Since 2001, the Foundation
has been working on three interrelated projects focusing
on the story of Jewish community of Oradea, a major
city in northwestern Romania.
The central element, a planned
new museum and learning center situated in what was
once a major synagogue, serves as the wellspring for
the other two. In development is a feature documentary
about the initiative behind the musuem and the story
of the lives and ultimate fate of the people the museum
intends to honor. In place since 2003 is an extensive
Web site, a virtual world of the past and present
of the Jewish community of this city.
Please see OradeaJC.com.
2. Bringing
attention to the work of American poets and the value
of poetry in everyday life
REMproductions, the media group of the Foundation,
is developing a feature documentary film about poets
and poetry in the U.S. today, as well as shorter,
more narrowly focussed documentary works for the poetry
community and general public.
The first completed work is a 20 minute short about
the poet Gerald Stern, produced in association with
the Poetry Foundation. Gerald Stern: Still Burning
can be viewed at the Foundation's web site, along
with a number of trailers, compilations, and short
documentaries featuring over 50 contemporary American
poets.
Please see www.PoetryMattersNow.org
3. Supporting
established charities and institutions financially
The Foundation makes donations
to established charities and non-profit institutions.
These include organizations whose focus is on: arts
and education; human rights; children at risk; refugees;
Jewish continuity. At this time proposals are accepted
by invitation only.
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