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Polack’s House and the Jewish Community at Clifton College

Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, Redland

  Polack's House at Clifton College, founded in 1878, was the first Jewish Boarding House in an English public school. The history of the Jewish Boarding House at Clifton is closely connected to one particular family - the Polack family who provided four housemasters, over three generations and 89 years. The House, particularly in the … Continue reading Polack’s House and the Jewish Community at Clifton College

£3.00 – £5.00

Indignation

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

Set against the backdrop of the Korean War, a working-class Jewish student, Marcus (Logan Lerman), leaves Newark, New Jersey, to attend a small college in Ohio. There, he experiences a sexual awakening after meeting the elegant and wealthy Olivia (Sarah Gadon), and confronts the school's dean (Tracy Letts) over the role of religion in academic … Continue reading Indignation

£5.25

Jews and the Slave Trade

Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, Redland

In 1991, the Nation of Islam first published the Secret Relationships between Jews and Blacks charging Jews with controlling the Atlantic Slave trade. The book has been furiously rebutted by academics but its assertions are still circulating unquestioned on a number of popular Black History sites. How significant is this? How is the Jewish role … Continue reading Jews and the Slave Trade

£3.00 – £5.00

Dough

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

  Take an aging white Jewish baker, add a young black Muslim immigrant, and what do you have? The ingredients story in which bridges are built across religious, racial and generations. Nat (Jonathan Pryce), who runs a kosher London bakery is struggling and facing a hostile takeover bid from a cutthroat developer who wants to … Continue reading Dough

£5.25

Social justice, Jews and the refugee experience in Britain

Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, Redland

Vivienne Jackson •  Jewish Council for Racial Equality • London Race, asylum and immigration are visibly high on the UK political agenda. Europe is witnessing the greatest refugee crisis within its boundaries since the Second World War. Anti-immigration arguments are palpable in sections of the national press, and appear to have lain behind some of … Continue reading Social justice, Jews and the refugee experience in Britain

£4 – £6

Felix and Meira

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

  Unfolding on snowy sidewalks and beneath overcast skies, “Felix and Meira” watches ever so closely as a young Hasidic wife and mother is tempted by the quirky charms of a wayward older man. Yet this tenderly observed love story isn’t about religion — or its lack — but about the attraction of difference and … Continue reading Felix and Meira

£5.25

Putting your local Jewish history on the map: the Bradford experience.

Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, Redland

  Bradford in West Yorkshire started attracting Jews as residents as the City’s Wool Trade grew in the 1830s. The community grew as many migrants first from Germany and then from Russia made their homes in Bradford. In 1881 the first synagogue was opened in Bowland Street built by the German Jewish merchants and in … Continue reading Putting your local Jewish history on the map: the Bradford experience.

£3 – £6

Denial

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

In 1996, the historian Deborah Lipstadt was pursued in the UK courts by the notorious Holocaust denier David Irving, for calling him a falsifier of history in her book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. This movie version of those events, stars Rachel Weisz as Lipstadt and Timothy Spall as Irving. … Continue reading Denial

£5.25

Kabbalah and Yoga

Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, Redland

Yoga is one of at least six Hindu religions as old or older than Judaism. It overlaps through serendipity with the concept of “Adam Kadmon” (original man) in Rabbi Moshe de Leon’s Zohar – published in manuscript form in the late 13th century Castile but attributed by some to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai the 2nd … Continue reading Kabbalah and Yoga

£3 – £6

The Zookeepers Wife

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

Adapted from Diane Ackerman’s 2007 non-fiction book, the film follows Warsaw zookeepers Jan (Heldenbergh) and Antonina (Chastain) as they risk their lives to save Jewish townspeople from the Nazis by concealing them in their zoo home-turned-pig farm. From the opening scene of almost fairy-tale idyll, life is transformed by the arrival of the Nazis.  The … Continue reading The Zookeepers Wife

£5.25

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