This fall, the Rauh Jewish Archives will be opening “Louise Silk: A Patchwork Life,” a 50-year retrospective exhibit on local Jewish fiber artist Louise Silk. In this talk, RJA Director Eric Lidji will give a preview of the exhibit, looking specifically at the growth of Jewish feminism in Pittsburgh in the early 1990s.

Eric Lidji
Director of Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives

Eric has written extensively about the Jewish history of Western Pennsylvania for local periodicals. He is the author of The Seventeenth Generation: The Lifework of Rabbi Walter Jacob and a coeditor of the anthologies Her Deeds Sing Her Praises and Bound in the Bond of Life. He has also been overseeing the effort to preserve documentation of the October 27 attack.