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Edward Zwick's Short List: The Films of Axel Corti (print version only) Feb 2, 2009 Defiance director Zwick says of these films: "Closely observed, beautifully acted, utterly unsentimental yet profoundly moving". "Jewish Guys Get an Image Makeover" By Lewis Beale Los Angeles Times, Jan 4, 2009 NCJF's Lisa Rivo quoted "On the Horizon": New York Jewish Film Festival New Yorker, Jan 5, 2009 2 of 3 films cited are from NCJF

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE SCREENING OF NEWLY-RESTORED FILM The Jester Der Purimspiler (USA 1937) Palm Springs International Film Festival Sunday, January 2009 FILM PAGE PRESS RELEASE (PDF)   5 NCJF Films Screening at New York Jewish Film Festival Jan 14–29, 2009 All screenings at Lincoln Center Walter Reade Theater. FESTIVAL WEBSITE NCJF FILMS HIGHLIGHTED IN NYJFF PRESS COVERAGE THE JEWISH FORWARD JEWISH WEEK The Jester (Intro by Sharon Pucker Rivo) Jan 19, 1:00 pm Being Jewish in France (with director Yves Jeuland) Jan 25, 7:15 Jewish Luck Jan 18, 1:00 pm The Return of Nathan Becker (Intro by J Hoberman) Jan 25, 5:15 pm Yosl Cutler and His Puppets Jan 14, 1:30 pm Jan 14, 6:15 pm NOVEMBER 2008 Restored Yiddish Film Retrospective in Vienna NCJF Executive Director Sharon Pucker Rivo lecture & media presentation at Filmarchiv Austria. CLICK HERE FOR BROCHURE (PDF). FILM FESTIVAL WEBSITE
	BEING JEWISH IN FRANCE JEWISH LUCK THE RETURN OF NATHAN BECKER
	EAST AND WEST

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Review: ALL JEWS OUT
The Jewish Advocate, April 2008

Review: ALL JEWS OUT
The Jewish Advocate, April 2008

"JUDAISM AS AN ELDER BROTHER"
The Jewish Advocate, November 2007

"LEADING LADIES RETURN IN 6 ISRAELI FILMS"
World Jewish Digest, October 2007

"FILM PROVES ISRAEL ROCKS"
The Jewish Advocate, September 2007

"A STOLEN ART WORLD"
The Jewish Advocate, September, 2007

"A SHARED PAST FOR THE JEWS AND IRISH",
The Jewish Advocate, September 2007

"JEWISH VETERANS RECALL STRUGGLE"
The Jewish Advocate, August 2007

"A REEL FINE WAY TO PRESERVE JEWISH HISTORY"
The Jewish Journal, August 2007

"A DEEPER LOOK AT SPANISH JEWS",
The Jewish Advocate, August 2007

"BRIEF REVIEWS: THE CANTOR'S SON",
Hadassah Magazine, August/September 2007

"GOOD DEEDS RECALLED; BRITISH 'SCHINDLER' HONORED"
The Jewish Advocate, August 2007

"THE SINGING BLACKSMITH IS A SLICE OF HISTORY"
The Jewish Advocate, July 2007

"THE JOY OF JEWISH SONG"
The Jewish Advocate, July 2007

"STALKING HISTORY"
World Jewish Digest, July 2007

"YIPPEE: A JOURNEY TO JEWISH JOY"
World Jewish Digest, June 2007

"YIDDISH TALES COME TO LIFE"
The Jewish Advocate, June 2007

"IN THE SOUTH, THEY SAY 'OY'"
The Jewish Advocate, June 2007

"PUTTING THE PAST ONSTAGE"
The Jewish Advocate, June 2007

"A JEWISH SNAPSHOT: FILM ON BOSTON LIFE..."
The Jewish Advocate, June 2007

"THE HEART OF JEWISH FILM IS BROOKLINE"
Our Town Brookline, April 2007

"BRIEF REVIEWS: YIPPEE: A JOURNEY TO JEWISH JOY"
Hadassah Magazine, February 2007

"SAVING YIDDISH FILMS"
Jewish Week, February 2007

"PAUL MAZURSKY WITNESSES CHASIDS GONE WILD"
Jewish Journal, January 2007

"HOLLYWOOD TO UMAN: WHAT A LONG STRANGE TRIP"
The Desert Sun, January 2007

"A FILM FESTIVAL FOR A JEWISH WORLD THAT SPANS THE GLOBE", The New York Times, January 2007

"MOVIES: DIASPORA AND ZION"
The New Yorker, January 2007

"THE STRONG, SILENT TYPE"
Jewish Week, January 2007

FLYER: HUNGRY HEARTS SCREENING AT USC
November 2006

"HISTORIC YIDDISH FILM RESTORED"
News Tribune, July 2006

"HIAMISHE HOME VIEWING"
World Jewish Digest, April 2006

"TWO TRADITIONS, ONE STRUGGLE"
The Jewish Forward, January 2006

"CLOSE-UP: THE LIVING ORPHAN"
The Village Voice, January 2006

"REPRESENTING THE SHTETL ON FILM"
Jewish Herald-Voice Houston, October 2005

"THE SPIRITUAL AND THE SECULAR"
Art New England, August 2005

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