JGSGB-Announce Mailing List: <JGSGB-Announce> Film Clips from Eastern Europe between the Wars - Sun, Dec 14 at 2:00 - Temple Emanuel, Newton

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Sunday, December 14, 2014    2:00 - 4:00 pm

Program starts at 2:00

Jews in Focus: Film Clips
from Eastern and Central Europe between the World Wars

Sharon Pucker Rivo

Temple Emanuel, Newton, MA

Join Sharon Pucker Rivo, Executive Director of The National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis, for a peek into the archive vaults. Attendees will view clips of rare films from the Center’s collections that document the diversity and vibrancy of Jewish life in Eastern and Central Europe between the Wars.

Sharon Pucker Rivo co-founded The National Center for Jewish Film and has been a leading force in the field of Jewish film and culture for more than three decades through her work as a curator, programmer, archivist, film distributor, film and television producer, and academic.  She holds degrees from Brandeis University and the University of California, Berkeley, and is on the faculty of Brandeis University.

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A Spotlight Talk will follow the main speaker

I'm Not Polish: My Discovery of Identity

Leora Tec 

Leora will present the story of the serendipitous journey to her own Polish identity. Leora has traveled extensively in Poland and draws on a wide network of connections to scholars and others doing “memory work” there.  As the founder and director of Bridge to Poland, she leads tours that examine the country’s rich Jewish past and works with Christian Poles committed to preserving that history. Leora holds a BA from Wellesley College and a JD/LLM from Duke University School of Law.

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Special Interest Group

4:00 pm - Belarus SIG

History of the Borders of Belarus

Temple Emanuel
333 Ward Stree
Newton Centre, MA

Admission is free for members, $5 for guests

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