Panel Discussion February 2012
Photo of Elissa Sampson by Paul Margolis
On February 5, 2012, Friends of the Bialystoker Home sponsored a panel discussion. Participants were:
- Joyce Mendelsohn, author of The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited, founding member, Friends of the Bialystoker Home
- Linda Jones, founding member, Seward Park Preservation & History Club and Friends of the Bialystoker Home; member, Community Board 3
- Laurie Tobias Cohen, Executive Director, Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy
- Rebecca Kobrin, author of Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora; Assistant Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University
- Suzanne Wasserman, filmmaker; Director, Gotham Center for NYC History/CUNY Graduate Center
- Elissa Sampson, Ph.D candidate in Urban Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; long-time resident of the Lower East Side
- Mitchell Grubler, founding member, Friends of the Bialystoker Home, VP Four Borough Neighborhood Preservation Alliance