The Past is the Present, is the third in a trilogy of books published by artist Nina Talbot that shares the continuing journey of her genealogical discoveries. This book features articles published in various periodicals that are written by, or about Talbot and that expand and elucidate her search for her heritage. Talbot's Dynów mural and her painting series, Places in Galicia are showcased.
Family Stories from Galicia, by Nina Talbot, features interviews and stories of Talbot’s family, survivors and their descendants from Galicia, the historic area in southeastern Poland, which prior to World War I was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The book includes family trees, photographs, tombstone documentation from cemeteries in the US, Poland and Hungary, research material relating to ancestors and documentation of Talbot’s travelling painting exhibition in Poland related to her family research.
Family Stories From Galicia is a sequel to Talbot’s Faces of Dynów, which highlights her painting series with accompanied text.
Family Stories From Galicia available at:
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Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
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Faces of Dynów (published in English and Polish) by Nina Talbot - Painter Nina Talbot shares portraits and stories of family, friends and famous rabbis from her ancestral town of Dynów, Poland in the historical area of Galicia. The book documents the journey and discovery of Talbot's history with interviews, stories and ancestural documentation.
Faces of Dynów available at:
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New York, NY 10280
Published by U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, PA
ISBN #978-0-9790138-5, in conjunction with the exhibition, Veterans, paintings by Nina Talbot, at U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center.
(54 pages)
Art: Nina Talbot
Soldiers’ Stories: Sophie Rand
Editors: Mike Perry and Amanda Neal
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Sophie's Stories – A children's book that explores the topic of immigration, written and illustrated by Nina Talbot
A young girl investigates her great-grandmother’s life, and in the process learns about the many other lives of immigrant workers in the local supermarket when she and her mother shop for the ingredients for her great-grand-mother’s recipe for cookies. Sophie comes away with a lot more than the ingredients for the cookies; she has learned histories of real people from around the world.
from – Poldkarpackie Opinion Portal/Culture/January 20, 2020
On Wednesday, January 29th, Dynów High School will be visited by Nina Talbot, an American painter who recreates on canvas the story of her ancestors - the historic rabbis of Dynów. Many of them died during the extermination of Jews on the second day of Rosh Hashanah in 1939…
In September 2018, on a trip to Dynów, my grandmother’s home town in Galicia, my Dynower pal, Jurek Warchoł told me about three people he knew who had stories to tell about the Jewish people they lived with before the war.
… Jurek had arranged for me to meet and speak to these three women, from different places, in and around Dynów …
[Articles available online to Journal Members]
The Galitzianer, September 2019, Two Brothers, by Nina Talbot
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The Galitzianer, September 2018, Interview with Michael Tag, by Nina Talbot
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The Galitzianer, June 2018, Interview with Sam Nager, by Nina Talbot
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The Galitzianer, March 2016, Faces of Dynów, by Nina Talbot
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DOROT, Summer 2020, Love, Marriage and Divorce Across The Atlantic, by Nina Talbot
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DOROT, Winter 2020, Family Trees of Galicia, by Nina Talbot
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Dynowinka, Summer 2021, A Valentine for Dynów, pages 18-20
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Dynowinka, March 2021, 'Dynowians Remember'
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Dynowinka, January 2020, The 12th Anniversary of the International Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust in Podkarpacie Province (translated from Polish).
This year, Mrs. Nina Talbot, an artist from New York City, and her husband Mark Rand
were the honorary guests of the event.
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Dynowinka, October 2018, Saved From Oblivion (translated from Polish).
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Dynowinka, September 2017, Under the Linden Tree (translated from Polish).
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Dynowinka, November 2016, Faces of Dynów (translated from Polish).
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Susquehanna Life Magazine, Veterans Tell Their Stories, By Erica Shames, Mar 12, 2015
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The Sentinel, Harrisburg, PA, Army Heritage Education Center hosts Veterans exhibit, 2014
Bronx Times, Vets' stories at Bronx Museum, By Jaime Williams, April 26, 2014
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