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Episode 102 - New York | The World in Front of Me

Bill Aron and his wife Isa moved to New York City in 1974, during the heyday of urban street photography. Looking for a career change, but with no clear idea on what he should do, Bill turned to his camera to fill his days. He began to document his Jewish world: the Lower East Side where he worked, and the Upper West Side Havurah Community, where he found fellowship and a radical method of Jewish observance. The Havurah is also where he met our host, Ruth Ellenson, then only a small child. Bill and Ruth reminisce about their first impressions of each other – Bill as a long-haired hippie, and Ruth as a charismatic out-going kid. Guest expert Deborah Dash Moore illuminates the field of New York City street photography in this era, and how Bill’s work and approach compares to his contemporaries, guiding us though the Jewish neighborhoods of New York and the uniqueness of the counter-culture Havurah movement. During this period, Bill’s hobby evolved into a profession. And thanks to his documentary photography, 1970’s Jewish New York has a significant historical record. Deborah Dash Moore is Jonathan Freedman Distinguished University Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Dash Moore has been in recent years teaching and studying documentary photography. She has also engaged in a number of major editorial projects, including the three-volume award winning City of Promises (2012 NYU Press) and serving as editor-in-chief of the ten-volume anthology, The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. She is the author of Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York (2023), Urban Origins of American Judaism (2014), and GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation (2004).