Film Series
The Tauber Institute works in close cooperation with the National Center for Jewish Film, co-sponsoring film screenings and an annual Jewish film festival. These films touch on a wide variety of themes in Jewish history and contemporary Jewish life, providing the Brandeis community as well as the general public a unique cultural and cinematic experience.
The National Center for Jewish Film's 15th Annual Film Festival
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
West Newton Cinema
April 18-29, 2012
"Nahum N. Glatzer and the German-Jewish Tradition"
Film Screening; North American Premiere
November 16, 7:00pm
Mandel Center for the Humanities Auditorium G3
Introduction by Director Judith Glatzer Wechsler
Panel Discussion with Wechsler and Prof. Jonathan Sarna
Filmmaker and art historian Judith Glatzer Wechsler's new documentary is a moving portrait of the life and work of her revered father and scholar Nahum N. Glatzer (1903-1990). Glatzer was professor of Jewish history and philosophy in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University from 1951-1973. A foremost disciple of philosopher Franz Rosenzweig, Glatzer succeeded Martin Buber at the University of Frankfurt in 1932. Fleeing Hitler, the Glatzers immigrated to Palestine in 1933 and then on to the US, where he served as editor in chief of Schocken Books and published early English editions of Franz Kafka. With over 260 books and articles on Jewish history, philosophy, and midrashic literature, Glatzer was a pioneer in the field of Jewish studies at Brandeis and throughout the United States.
Sponsored by the department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies with support of the Martin Weiner Fund, the National Center for Jewish Film, and the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry
Free and Open to the public