Currently on View at The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in New Orleans:
Shalom Y’all: A Snapshot of Southern Jewish LifePhotographs and Memories from Bill Aron and Vicki Reikes Fox
Award-winning photographer Bill Aron, chronicler of Jewish communities around the world, and writer Vicki Reikes Fox, a native of Mississippi, have dedicated many years to capturing the convergence of two interwoven communities-one Southern, one Jewish. The result of their creative collaboration is Shalom Y’all: Images of Jewish Life in the American South. Based on an original project by the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in Jackson, Mississippi, this exhibition of nearly 40 black-and-white photographs is a comprehensive look at the contemporary Southern Jewish experience.
Shalom Y’all began when Vicki Reikes Fox, the founding project director of the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in Mississippi, made a disheartening discovery at a thrift shop in Mississippi. Tossed into a box was a musty red velvet ark curtain, something very sacred to her Jewish heritage. Inspired to preserve the unique tie between Southern and Jewish cultures, she recruited Los Angeles photographer Bill Aron (From the Corners of the Earth: Contemporary Photographs of the Jewish World) to work with her.

One response to “Shalom Y’All with Bill Aron and Vicky Reikes Fox”
This looks like an awesome exhibition!