THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011 — 2PM
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
This documentary tells the story of Yolande Gabai (de Botton), dubbed the Jewish "Mata Hari." She provided intelligence in 1940s Alexandria that was instrumental in establishing the State of Israel. Born to a Turkish-Jewish mother and raised in Egypt, she circulated in Egyptian high society and was a favorite in King Farouk's court. Yolande's son, the prominent pioneer financier Gilbert de Botton, describes growing up with a secret agent mother.
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Title: Grace Paley: Collected Shorts
Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Time: 3:30pm
Location: Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University, 415 South St., Waltham, MA
USA | 2010 | 74 min | Digital | Director: Lilly Rivlin
Panel Discussion: Filmmaker Lilly Rivlin with Sylvia Barack Fishman, Co-Director Hadassah-Brandeis Institute & Joyce Antler, Professor of American Jewish History Brandeis University
Lilly Rivlin's intimate documentary is a rich portrait of writer, activist and New York icon Grace Paley (1922-2007). Paley's brilliant, frank and clever stories celebrating the authentic, daily lives of women are classics of American literature. A child of Russian Jewish refugees who became Poet Laureate of Vermont and State Author of New York, Paley spent a lifetime on the front lines of the feminist and anti-war movements. Winner Best Documentary Audience Award at the Starz Denver, Woodstock International and Washington Jewish film festivals. Palm Springs International Film Festival "Best of Fest."
CO-PRESENTED BY: Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
SPONSOR: American Studies
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Title: My 100 Children (Meah yeladim sheli)
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Time: 4:30 pm
Location: Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
This inspiring documentary is a moving portrayal of Lena Küchlar Silberman, an extraordinary Polish Jewish woman. In 1945/46 , she gathered Jewish child survivors throughout orphanages in Cracow and Zakopane and then smuggled them from Poland to Palestine/Israel. Co-presented by The National Center for Jewish Film as part of Jewishfilm.2010 NCJF's 13th Annual Film Festival.
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| Title: A Woman's Pale Blue Handwriting
Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
It is Austria 1936 and Leonidas Tachezy (Gabriel Barylli), an Austrian government official happily married to the daughter of a prominent family, receives a unsettling letter. Twelve years before, as a student in Germany, he had an affair with a Jewish woman. Now she is asking for his help in placing a half-Jewish eleven year old boy in an Austrian school. This dramatic and complex film, based on a novella by the Jewish author Franz Werfel (1890-1945) delves into a man's ethical crisis. Is the child his? Should he help, and at a time when the Nazis are on the rise?
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Title: Forgotten Transports: To Estonia
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Of the tens of thousands of Czech Jews deported during the Holocaust most were sent to virtually unknown camps and ghettos. Of those, fewer than 300 survived. (Czech deportees to Auschwitz survived at 10 times this rate.) To Estonia traces the 3-year odyssey of several dozen young women who arrived in Estonia in 1942 aboard a transport of 1000 Czech Jews. Amazingly, the women quickly formed a mutual support network, surviving together through a willful combination of youthful naiveté, denial, humor, optimism and camaraderie. Special Guest: Director Lukas Pribyl (Brandeis '96). Introduction will be given by Joanna Michlic, Director of the HBI Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust.
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