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Limmud Michigan 2020 - March 22, 2020
The Student Center at Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan
Sunday, March 22 • 11:05am - 12:00pm
Blair Studio Project: A Photographic Record of the Mid-20th Century Jewish Community of Detroit

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As featured in a recent episode of the PBS series “Family Photos USA” Tim Burke, a Detroit artist and collector, has discovered approximately 10,000 negatives discarded by the former Blair Studio. They are primarily photographs of Jewish family and communal events in Detroit, from the 1950s through the early 1970s, taken by Blair’s owner, Max Schrut. These negatives are the source of an exhibit planned to debut at Limmud Michigan 2020. In the session, Tim will describe his discovery, his work, and the meaning he finds in it. Tim will be joined by Tequila Minsky, Max Schrut’s daughter, a photojournalist based in Greenwich Village. The exhibit is sponsored by Limmud Michigan, the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan, REBOOT, and the Detroit Jewish News.
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Tim Burke

Artist, Collector
For almost 30 years, Tim Burke has been a leader in Detroit’s outsider art movement. A master of the found object genre, Tim has spearheaded his own a one man recycling operations: recovering 10 tons of granite from the renovation of the Detroit Institute of Arts, terracotta from... Read More →
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Sandra Weiswasser

Photographer, Daughter of Max Schrut, Blair Studio
I am Max Schrut's daughter, also a photographer. I grew up in Detroit and attended Mumford High School and the University of Michigan.  During my teen years I worked at my dad’s studio ( Blair Studio) after school.  I didn’t take any photos then, but occasionally, I worked in... Read More →
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Irv Goldfein

Founding Officer, Steering Team Member, Limmud Michigan
Irv Goldfein is a consultant and producer of Judaic reference and academic software and media, and an editor and literary agent for books in Judaica. He is the founder of The Jewish Forum, and was one of the partners who created the Encyclopaedia Judaica CD-ROM Edition. He holds a... Read More →
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Tequila Minsky

Photojournalist
Tequila Minsky has been a photojournalist for the last 28 years after pursuing a smattering of other vocations.A product of Michigan public schools—Vernor School, Cass Tech, and University of Michigan, she then moved to New York City where there, unless her accent is detected, she... Read More →

Sunday March 22, 2020 11:05am - 12:00pm
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