Awards
1998 Jewish Video Competition, Judah L. Magnes Museum
Jurors' Choice Award
This short documentary chronicles a 90 year old man's emigration to Israel from his native shtetl in Bessabaria. Yakhnis' beautifully photographed film poetically captures the end of a rich Jewish heritage in Russia.
"... each exquisitely-composed shot creates a world of haunting loss, unsurpassed faith and human dignity."
- San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
The National Center For Jewish Film
Brandeis University, Lown 102, MS053, Waltham MA 02454
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