Reminiscences of Eric R. Mendelsohn : oral history, 2001-2003.

Biographical Note

Filmmaker / Professor, Columbia University.

Scope and Contents

Born Old Bethpage, Long Island, NY; education: State University of New York Purchase; career: costume designer, director of Judy Berlin, Columbia University film professor; 9/11: breakfast on Hudson Street near World Trade Center [WTC], description of WTC fire, witness to second plane crash and collapse, walk to St. Vincent's Hospital; post-9/11: creating video documentation of streets, discussion of event with class; direction of 9/11 memorial performance 9/19 (2002), discussion of Israel-Palestine conflict, thoughts on Iraq invasion; renewed interest in Judaism.

Subjects

• Columbia University--Faculty--Interviews.
• Cvetkovich, Ann, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Mendelsohn, Eric R., 1964---Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
• Vedde, Fride, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

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