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Dear
Mr. Waldman
(Israel
2006)
In Tel Aviv in the 1960s 10-year-old
Hilik knows his goal in life–to make his parents happy and compensate
for the grief they both suffered in the Holocaust. The fragile equilibrium
of Rivka and Moishe’s new, post-war life begins to waver when
Moishe convinces himself his son from his first marriage, didn't actually
die in Auschwitz...
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The
Last Jews of Libya
(USA
2007)
The
Last Jews of Libya
documents the final decades of a centuries-old North African Sephardic
Jewish community through the lives of the remarkable Roumani family
who lived in Benghazi, Libya, for hundreds of years. Thirty-six thousand
Jews lived in Libya at the end of World War II, today none remain.
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Yippee:
A Journey to Jewish Joy
(USA
2006)
Directed
by award-winning American filmmaker, actor and screenplay writer Paul
Mazursky, Yippee chronicles the director's journey
to Uman, a small Ukranian town that is the site of a unique annual gathering
of Jewish men making pilgrimages to the burial place of Rabbi Nachman
(1772-1810).
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2
or 3 Things I Know About Him
(Germany
2005)
Malte
Ludin's documentary about his father, Hanns Ludin, a prominent Nazi
who was tried and executed as a war criminal in 1947, focuses on how
his family grappleswith -or refuses to engage- the history of their
family and of Weimar and Nazi Germany more generally.
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New
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