Join us for an evening of family histories and conversations with Naomi Spector Antonakos. Refreshments to follow. Please make a reservation: rsvp@primolevicenter.org (include the program’s title in the subject line).
It was the time of the pogroms in Ukraine. She walked, alone, from her shtetl, Shepatovka, to Odessa and boarded a ship to America. How? Why Boston? Here, she worked, learned English, and brought over her father, then her two older brothers in turn, and finally her sister Esther and Esther’s husband Itzak, with Ida’s own young son Nathan.
Her benefits to our family and our communities here are endless. W.H. Auden said the one thing a poet must do is praise. We all must do this, as well as we can, and we must save and tell these histories in books. Only a book can hold the facts, the memories –and perhaps inspire us. Books last.
Naomi Spector has written on the art of Stephen Antonakos, Ronald Bladen, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Mangold, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Robert Ryman, and Merrill Wagner. From the early 1960s through 1975 she directed in turn the Charles Byron, Fichbach, and John Weber Galleries. Since then, she has been Director at the Stephen Antonakos Studio.
