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<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nBy Liza Zapol, 2010<\/em><\/strong> The Streit\u2019s Matzo Factory has been in the New York\u2019s Lower East Side since 1925. The entire matzo process, from flour to boxed cracker, takes less than 18 minutes, and the mixing and baking covers five floors and four tenement buildings on Rivington Street.<\/p>\n Listen to an interview with Aaron Gross, the fifth generation of the Matzo making family, or engage with my hour-long audio documentary while reading the annotated transcripts of interviews about the history of Jewish businesses in the Lower East Side. I conducted in depth oral histories with Streit\u2019s Matzo, Economy Candy, and Harris Levy Linens. This project was created in affiliation with the exhibit \u201cShop Life\u201d (2011) at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.<\/p>\n Liza has worked with Director Julie Kline to create dynamic oral history based theater in senior centers in New York. Other theater and dance collaborations include an artists residency with iLAND and LMCC, creating interview-based artistic installations with True Body Project NYC, and co-founding the Combustibles, a physical theater company.<\/em><\/p>\n Liza teaches Oral History Methods at the New School for Drama. She has lectured at the New School Memory Conference (\u201cThe Museum as Ventriloquist: Oral History in the 9\/11 Memorial Museum\u201d), the NYCMER Conference (\u201cStory, Memory, Fantasy: How to Gather Visitors\u2019 Narratives and What to do Once You\u2019ve Got Them\u201d), and Columbia University (\u201cStores of Memory\u201d). She was a lecturer for the ART CART: Saving the Legacy project, training graduate students to conduct oral histories with older artists in New York. She earned a certificate in Physical Theatre from the London International School of Performing Arts, and a certificate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. B.A. with Honors from Northwestern University. M.A. in Oral History at Columbia University.<\/em><\/p>\n Liza has received grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council,\u00a0Fractured Atlas, the Puffin Foundation, the Arvon Foundation, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts. Her work at the Whitney Museum was funded by the Altman Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Stores of Memory”: An Oral History of Multigenerational Jewish Family Businesses in the Lower East Side By Liza Zapol, 2010 Found in the Academic Commons Listen to the audio documentary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[116,114,117,113,119,111,112,110,115,118],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thesis-project","tag-economy-candy","tag-family-business","tag-harris-levy-linens","tag-jewish","tag-liza-zapol","tag-lower-east-side","tag-multigenerational","tag-stores","tag-streits-matzo-factory","tag-tenement-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryworks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Liza Zapol<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is a Documentary Producer and an Oral Historian. She creates sound, multimedia and performance on the themes of memory and place, using documentary methods. Liza has worked with the Whitney Museum of American Art to better understand and build relationships within the museum\u2019s new neighborhood, and produced films about the Whitney Women,\u00a0Vito Acconci, and others. She is currently working on an oral history of the Whitney Independent Study Program. Liza leads the oral history project for the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, and has been an interviewer for the \u00a0Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture since 2011. Liza has created live performance events and audio materials for the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, The Rubin Museum, The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Massachusetts General Hospital, and collaborated on theater performances with Elevator Repair Service Company. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n