A new exhibit at the New York Historical, “The Recordings: Voices from the ‘Shoah’ Tapes,” begins with a statement from Louise Mirrer, the Manhattan museum’s president and CEO.

“It has become a commonplace to lament the rise of antisemitism in the United States,” it reads. Unlike other efforts to combat “the most recent iterations of this ancient scourge,” the new exhibit “takes a different, and in many respects more visceral approach: making audible antisemitism’s history and manifestation in communities during the Holocaust.”

The exhibit features recordings made by and for filmmaker Claude Lanzmann in the 1970s as he prepared what would become his monumental 1985 documentary “Shoah.” Mirrer’s remarks frame the exhibition in the aftermath of Oct. 7, emphasizing the urgent duty to

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