By Lauren Gilbert (co-curator) Senior Manager for Public Services, Center for Jewish History An Unlikely Journalist: Emile Bocian in Chinatown, Part 2 A NEIGHBORHOOD IN TRANSITION This is a series of blog posts about the upcoming exhibition An Unlikely Photojournalist: Emile Bocian in Chinatown, a joint project of The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) and Center for Jewish History. For an overview of…

By Lauren Gilbert (co-curator) Senior Manager for Public Services, Center for Jewish History UPCOMING EXHIBITION | An Unlikely Photojournalist: Emile Bocian in Chinatown Emile Bocian (1912-1990), son of Eastern-European Jewish immigrants, was perhaps the only non-Asian resident of Chinatown’s iconic Confucius Plaza apartment complex at the intersection of Bowery, Doyers Street, and Division Street in the 1970s and 80s. Through a series of chance encounters,…