'Jewish life more fragile than ever,' says photographer who documents Jewish cemeteries

(JNS) - Documenting Jewish cemeteries and synagogues over a decade for what became his book "The Posthumous Landscape: Remnants of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe," Jewish photojournalist David Kaufman found helpers and those who got in his way.

"Every place we went, there was someone who knew where the former cemetery or synagogue was. Those people were invariably happy to help us find our way and did this graciously, often out of a commitment to preserve Jewish material culture," the Toronto-based filmmaker and former CBC documentarian told JNS.

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