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SUMMARY:Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles - CANCELLED DUE TO LOCKDOWN RESTRICTIONS
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Max Lewkowicz; 2019; 97 min; English \nDirector Max Lewkowicz’s richly detailed documentary celebrates the illustrious Broadway show Fiddler on the Roof\, the evergreen shtetl-set musical first staged in 1964 with choreography and direction by Jerome Robbins and starring Zero Mostel as Teyve\, the milkman. Contributions from a range of interviewees – including people attached to the original production\, such as producer Hal Prince and lyricist Sheldon Harnick\, and famous fans of the show\, including Fran Lebowitz and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda – help to structure the history lesson about how Fiddler became a massive international hit. That account is filled out with footage of recent productions from around the world\, including one in Japanese and one by some African American high-school kids in Brooklyn \nWhat really makes this documentary are the digressions into\, among many other things\, the history of the Pale of Settlement\, who exactly was Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (who wrote the stories the show is based on)\, Marc Chagall\, and the show’s ghostly connection to the Holocaust\, even though it’s not mentioned in the show itself.  Despite its age\, this musical engages audiences\, both Jewish and non-Jewish\, all over the world and has a remarkable ability to seem relevant to every era\, including the present day with the rise of the ultra right and anti-semitism. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/fiddler-a-miracle-of-miracles/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing,history
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201112T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201112T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20200901T105815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201115T113820Z
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SUMMARY:Creativity against the odds:  Art and Internment during World War Two
DESCRIPTION:To mark the 80th anniversary of the British government’s controversial decision to ‘collar the lot’\, this illustrated lecture will examine the art produced in the British internment camps\, mostly but not only on the Isle of Man. It will do so in the broader context of art produced in other internment situations\, from the Japanese-American camps in the USA to the Nazi POW and concentration camps. Just what is it that makes human beings feel the urge to create in such adverse and inauspicious circumstances? To hear a recording of this talk please click on the following link which will take you to the Insiders/Outsiders youtube channel \n \nMonica Bohm-Duchen is a London-based art historian. Her book Art and the Second World War was published in 2013. She is the initiator and creative director of the nationwide\, year-long Insiders/Outsiders Festival (https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/)\, which celebrates the huge contribution made to British culture by refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe – many of whom were interned as ‘enemy aliens’ by the British government in 1940. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/creativity-against-the-odds-art-and-internment-during-world-war-two/
LOCATION:Virtual streamed
CATEGORIES:art,history,holocaust,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201028T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201028T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20201004T131447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201004T131608Z
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SUMMARY:The Band's Visit
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Eran Korilin; 90 minutes; English\, Hebrew\, Arabic \nThis award winning charming Israeli comedy is the tale of an Egyptian police band stranded overnight in a quiet Israeli settlement after taking the wrong bus. It features lovely performances from Sasson Gabai as the band’s impeccably behaved conductor and actress Ronit Elkabetz as an Israeli bar owner who puts him up for the night. A beautifully controlled piece\, it marks the impressive debut of director and screenwriter Eran Kolirin\, who handles the delicate shades of politics with subtle tones. The Egyptians encounter a few Israeli townspeople\, who respond with curiosity about the band\, are variously friendly and wary\, and provide them with shelter\, food\, music and companionship during their visit. \n“In the morning\, the band reassembles and leaves: An interlude involving two “enemies\,” Arabs and Israelis\, that shows them both as only ordinary people with ordinary hopes\, lives and disappointments. It has also shown us two souls with rare beauty.” (Roger Egbert) \n  \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/the-bands-visit/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Film Showing
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201008T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201008T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20200901T105151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200901T105151Z
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SUMMARY:Medicine in Ancient Judaism: Why does G-d attempt to kill Moses in Exodus 4?
DESCRIPTION:Directly after the burning bush scene\, G-d inexplicably tries to kill Moses (Exodus 4:24-26). Fortunately\, Moses’ life is saved by Zipporah’s enigmatic “Bridegroom of Blood” ritual. Commentators both ancient and modern have proposed many solutions by filling in the gaps\, proposing reasons such as Moses’ failing courage or procrastination. But what did this episode mean in its original setting? This talk will look at how G-d’s attempt on Moses’ life is better understood in the broader historical context of ancient medicine. In this talk\, Dr Askin will draw upon recent research from her current project\, Medicine in Ancient Israel and Early Judaism\, to explore how and why the Bible’s portrayals of medicine and healing seems so mysterious and distant to us. \n \nDr Lindsey A. Askin is Lecturer in Jewish Studies\, University of Bristol. She is the author of Scribal Culture in Ben Sira (Brill\, 2018)\, which is based on her doctoral thesis (University of Cambridge\, 2012-16). Her research interests include mental illness and medicine in the Bible and ancient Judaism\, scribal culture and literacy\, Ben Sira\, the Dead Sea Scrolls\, and the Book of Jubilees. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/medicine-in-ancient-judaism-why-does-g-d-attempt-to-kill-moses-in-exodus-4-2/
LOCATION:Virtual streamed
CATEGORIES:Medicine,Talk,Torah
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200930T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200930T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20200915T074914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200915T075231Z
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SUMMARY:JoJo Rabbit
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Taika Waititi\,\nStarring Taika Waititi\, Roman Griffin Davis\, Scarlett Johansson\, Rebel Wilson ; 2019\, 123 mins\, English \nSince the days of Chaplin’s The Great Dictator\, film-makers have adopted naive or comedic perspectives to pierce and deflate the hideous bubble of Nazi ideology. Now\, in this Golden Globe-nominated adaptation of Christine Leunens’s book Caging Skies\, New Zealand writer-director-performer Taika Waititi plays a camp\, slapstick version of Hitler\, who exists in the mind of a German boy\, Jojo. Roman Griffin Davis plays the 10-year-old growing up under the Third Reich\, whose jolly dreams of becoming an Aryan war hero are thwarted by his innate sensitivity and squeamishness. Beneath the fanaticism\, Jojo is a frightened boy whose sister has died and whose father has disappeared in battle. But his mother\, Rosie (Scarlett Johansson)\, has a secret: she’s a covert anti-fascist who is hiding a Jewish girl\, Elsa (Thomasin McKenzie)\, in the attic. When Jojo stumbles upon Elsa\, he is initially horrified\, believing her to be a monster. But gradually the pair strike up a love-hate relationship that infuriates imaginary Adolf and causes Jojo to start to rethink his allegiances. Through Elsa\, Waititi articulates some fundamental and insidious tenets of antisemitism that are being touted even now. She is the real conduit for empathy in the audience\, regardless of whether you’re Jewish or not \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/jojo-rabbit/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Film Showing,holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200402T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200402T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20200113T214613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200323T131641Z
UID:391-1585855800-1585861200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Finding 100 Faces: capturing Jewish diversity
DESCRIPTION:THIS MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELLED BECAUSE OF COVID-19 \n  \nIn early 2018\, composer and film maker Benjamin Till\, who had only recently discovered he was Jewish\, decided to make the film 100 Faces to find out more about the community he’d been a member of for 43 years without realising.  His mission was to find one UK-based Jewish person born every year from 1918 to 2017 and it became a journey which took him all over the world. His final 100 people include Jewish people from all walks of life. Rabbis and chazans rub shoulders with Holocaust survivors\, kinder-transportees\, well-known actors\, musicians and writers\, and two men who fought at Cable Street. The film is set to an original score performed by the Israel Camera Orchestra.  Sit back and enjoy the film (around 6 mins)\, and then hear about the bumpy and inspirational ride which led there. \n  \nBenjamin Till is an award-winning filmmaker and composer. He grew up in Northamptonshire and describes himself as a fanatical Midlander of Welsh and Jewish extraction. He has many works to his credit including Our Gay Wedding: The Musical\, a Bafta-nominated film is considered one of Channel 4’s most successful broadcasts. His most recent film\, 100 Faces\, won the gold award at the Robinson’s International Short Film Competition. Benjamin sings with\, and is Resident Composer for\, the Jewish male voice choir Mosaic Voices at New West End Synagogue\, London. \n  \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/finding-100-faces-capturing-jewish-diversity/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200325T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200325T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20200113T220222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200323T131543Z
UID:401-1585166400-1585173600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Wondrous Oblivion
DESCRIPTION:  \nTHIS FILM HAS BEEN CANCELLED BECAUSE OF COVID-19 \n  \n  \nUK 2003\, 106 mins\, English \nDirector Paul Morrison \nIn this comedy drama\, David Wiseman is mad about cricket but faces two problems: he’s Jewish and he’s absolutely hopeless at playing the game. When a Jamaican family move next door\, the father Dennis schools him in the delicate arts of bat and ball. David’s parents come out of their shells thanks to Dennis\, while David learns about growing up and becoming assertive both on and off the pitch. \n‘The movie presents a pretty convincing account of its time and is well acted. Like Paul Morrison’s earlier movie\, Solomon and Gaenor\, Wondrous Oblivion is somewhat contrived and occasionally sentimental. But it’s warm\, kindly\, and has a heart the size of the Oval.’ (Philip French\, Observer review) \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/wondrous-oblivion/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200311T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200311T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20200113T215815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T125154Z
UID:387-1583955000-1583960400@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual?
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED  TO AVOID RISK OF COVID-19 (CORONA VIRUS) INFECTION  \nStanley Kubrick is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s great directors. Yet few critics or scholars have considered how he emerged from a unique and vibrant cultural milieu: the New York Jewish intelligentsia. Nathan Abrams reexamines the director’s work in context of his ethnic and cultural origins and focuses on several of Kubrick’s key themes-masculinity\, ethical responsibility\, and the nature of evil.-At the same time\, he will explore Kubrick’s fraught relationship with his Jewish identity and his reluctance to be pegged as an ethnic director. \nNathan Abrams is Professor in Film at Bangor University. He co-convenes the British Jewish Contemporary Cultures network. He lectures\, writes and broadcasts widely on UK and American popular culture\, history film and intellectual culture. He co-founded Jewish Film and New Media and recent books are Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (with Robert Kolker\, Oxford University Press\, 2019)\, Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual (Rutgers University Press\, 2018)\, Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film\, Television\, and Popular Culture (Northwestern University Press\, 2016). \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/stanley-kubrick-new-york-jewish-intellectual/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:Cinema,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200226T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200226T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20200113T215615Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200113T215615Z
UID:396-1582747200-1582754400@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:My Polish Honeymoon
DESCRIPTION:France 2018\, 88 mins\, French with English subtitles \nDirector Elise Otzenberger \nPacked with charm and laughter\, this delightful comedy follows recently-married Parisian couple\, Anna and Adam\, as they head off on a belated honeymoon to Poland\, leaving their baby in the hands of Anna’s parents. Whilst Anna hopes to find out something of her family’s history\, Adam is more interested in having a few days alone with his wife. Immersed in a new but strangely familiar culture\, they discover a Poland awash with absurd and wonderful characters\, picture perfect beauty and unbearable sadness. Élise Otzenberger’s debut feature is an entertaining and life affirming tale about rediscovering roots and being Jewish today. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/my-polish-honeymoon/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200213T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20200113T214205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200113T214205Z
UID:382-1581622200-1581627600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Henri Tajfel: Explorer of identity and difference
DESCRIPTION:  \nHenri Tajfel was one of the most influential European social psychologists of the 20th century. Rupert Brown will trace his life from his birth in Poland in 1919\, his time as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans in World War II\, his post-war work with Jewish orphans in France and Belgium\, and thence to his short but brilliant career as a social psychologist. Tajfel was interested in how and why groups see and treat each other in negative ways. He conducted a famous set of studies – known as the minimal group experiments – and developed Social Identity Theory\, the heart of which is that people’s identities are often intimately tied up with the groups they belong to and they will work hard to make those groups appear superior to other groups. This theory paved the way for subsequent work which shows how mass-scale human violence\, such as the Holocaust\, might be possible. \nRupert Brown is Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Sussex. He obtained his PhD under Tajfel at the University of Bristol and has been an active researcher in the field of intergroup relations and prejudice. He was the recipient of the 2014 Henri Tajfel medal\, awarded by the European Association of Social Psychology and is the author of two widely used student texts\, Group Processes (2019) and Prejudice (2010). His biography of Tajfel is published by Routledge (2019). \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/henri-tajfel-explorer-of-identity-and-difference/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:social psychology,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200129T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200129T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20200113T215210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200123T184136Z
UID:394-1580328000-1580335200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Remember
DESCRIPTION:Canada/Germany 2015\, 94 mins\, English \nDirector Atom Egoyan featuring Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau \n‘Christopher Plummer puts on a master class in acting\, and his director\, Atom Egoyan\, delivers one in audience manipulation in Remember a psychological thriller featuring that most blood-boiling of plot devices: a Nazi who escaped justice.’ \nMr. Plummer is Zev and Martin Landau plays Max\, fellow residents in an assisted-living complex. Max realizes they were both at Auschwitz. He is the brains and Zev is the brawn\, so to speak\, of a plan Max has hatched to seek vengeance on a concentration camp official who escaped to the United States under a false identity. Max is in a wheelchair\, but he arms Zev and sends him on a cross-country journey to interview four people who could be the missing Nazi\, the hope being that he’ll kill the man once he finds him. But Zev is floating in and out of dementia\, complicating the task and giving Mr. Plummer a chance to turn in a very fine performance.’ (Neil Glezinger\, NY Times review) \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/remember/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing,holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191212T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20190811T143811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190811T143811Z
UID:363-1576179000-1576184400@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Medicine in Ancient Judaism: Why does G-d attempt to kill Moses in Exodus 4?
DESCRIPTION:Directly after the burning bush scene\, G-d inexplicably tries to kill Moses (Exodus 4:24-26). Fortunately\, Moses’ life is saved by Zipporah’s enigmatic “Bridegroom of Blood” ritual. Commentators both ancient and modern have proposed many solutions by filling in the gaps\, proposing reasons such as Moses’ failing courage or procrastination. But what did this episode mean in its original setting? This talk will look at how G-d’s attempt on Moses’ life is better understood in the broader historical context of ancient medicine. In this talk\, Dr Askin will draw upon recent research from her current project\, Medicine in Ancient Israel and Early Judaism\, to explore how and why the Bible’s portrayals of medicine and healing seems so mysterious and distant to us. \nDr Lindsey A. Askin is Lecturer in Jewish Studies\, University of Bristol. She is the author of Scribal Culture in Ben Sira (Brill\, 2018)\, which is based on her doctoral thesis (University of Cambridge\, 2012-16). Her research interests include mental illness and medicine in the Bible and ancient Judaism\, scribal culture and literacy\, Ben Sira\, the Dead Sea Scrolls\, and the Book of Jubilees. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/medicine-in-ancient-judaism-why-does-g-d-attempt-to-kill-moses-in-exodus-4/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:history,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191127T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191127T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20190811T143416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190811T143416Z
UID:358-1574884800-1574892000@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Back to Berlin
DESCRIPTION:Following eleven modern-day Jewish bikers on an epic journey from Tel-Aviv to Berlin\, crossing nine European countries and 4\,500 km in twenty-four days. Their mission\, to deliver the Maccabi torch to Hitler’s infamous 1936 Olympic stadium\, for the opening ceremony of the 2015 European Maccabiah Games. These riders follow in the tracks of the early 1930s’ bikers who set out from Tel Aviv to all corners of Europe.  En route\, each country holds a chilling resonance for our motor-cycling Holocaust survivors\, descendants of survivors and the grandson of a 1930s Maccabiah Rider. Stories of defiance and survival are revealed\, as well as those of horrifying tragedy.  As resurgent populism and anti-Semitism once again rear their ugly heads\, this film brings an important message through the voice of those who have been personally affected by one of the darkest pages in human history. This isn’t simply a “Jewish” story. It is the story of people overcoming the worst from fellow man to restate our common humanity. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/back-to-berlin/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing,holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191114T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20190811T142920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190811T142920Z
UID:355-1573759800-1573765200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Here I am; Capturing the Stories of the South Wales Jewish Community
DESCRIPTION:There have been two projects in Cardiff over the last 10 years that have used oral history to capture the stories of the Cardiff Jewish community\, as well as preserving written records. The talk will look at how we went about it and some of the advantages of oral history\, and will give some fascinating snippets from the stories people had to tell. It will also look at what we learnt about identity and belonging and the diversity of experience of the community\, from the last Barmitzvah in a synagogue in Cologne ten days before Kristallnacht to the first Jewish wedding in Kidwelly\, a village in West Wales. \nColin Heyman was involved in the Hineni Oral History project which started the work in 2009 and John Minkes of the Jewish History Association of South Wales has continued the work over the last three years. In our other lives\, Colin is a trainer and facilitator\, John a retired criminologist. Our other joint activity is going to see Cardiff City play \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/here-i-am-capturing-the-stories-of-the-south-wales-jewish-community/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:history,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191030T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191030T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20190811T142528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191008T072447Z
UID:352-1572465600-1572472800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:A bag of marbles (un sac de billes)
DESCRIPTION:Last year this film was sold out\, so we are reshowing it. Canadian director Christian Duguay explores the horrors of World War Two from the perspective of two young Jewish boys living in Nazi-occupied France in Un Sac de Billes (A Bag of Marbles). Based on the acclaimed memoirs of the same name by Joseph Joffo\, A Bag of Marbles is a lavishly shot production that is brilliantly acted and is a gut-wrenching reminder of one of history’s darkest chapters. Following the fall of Paris to Nazi Germany during World War II\, brothers Maurice (Batyste Fleurial) and Joseph (Dorian Le Clech) are forced to leave their close-knit Jewish family behind for the free-zone along the French Riviera. \n Despite the grim war scenes and the dark subject matter\, Duguay has created a lavishly shot film that boasts stunning cinematography\, lush locations and beautiful period costumes. The film beautifully balances the high stake tension with some sweet and endearing moments between the two brothers and celebrates their innocence. While the film is a dark reminder of a terrible page in our history\, its heart-warming story reminds us that there are still good people in our darkest moments (modified from Daniele Foti-Cuzzola) \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/a-bag-of-marbles-un-sac-de-billes-2/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing,history,holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191010T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191010T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20190811T141839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190811T141839Z
UID:346-1570735800-1570741200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Internment of German Jews on the Isle of Man during World War Two
DESCRIPTION:During the second war German Jews living in Britain were classified as enemy aliens\, and in 1940 many were interned in camps on the Isle of Man. These included  David Memel’s father and father in law\, and David has recently visited the sites of the camps. He will discuss  the historical background to the internments\, and the experiences of internees\, mainly based on the accounts of his family. Despite the loss of freedom\, many interesting experiences resulted\, including living with a famous artist and a lion tamer. \nDavid Memel was chair of Limmud Bristol South West 2018 and is a committee member of Davar. He is a retired GP. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/internment-of-german-jews-on-the-isle-of-man-during-world-war-two/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:history,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190925T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190925T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20190811T142159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190811T143132Z
UID:349-1569441600-1569448800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Disobedience
DESCRIPTION:The question of whose disobedience\, and what kind of disobedience it is\, are at the heart of this absorbing and moving love story from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio based on the novel by Naomi Alderman. The drama takes place in the Orthodox Jewish community of north London. Weisz is Ronit\, a young photographer evidently living a fashionable and bohemian lifestyle in New York. Out of the blue\, she receives some bad news from back home that her father\, a much-respected rabbi\, has died. Ronit’s return resurrects her past relationships with Dovid (Alessandro Nivola)\, her father’s favourite pupil\, who is now a much admired young rabbi himself. The other is with Esti\, beautifully played by Rachel McAdams\, who was Ronit’s only ally in youthful rebelliousness back in the day. This is a richly satisfying and powerfully acted work. (modified from Peter Bagshaw\, Guardian) \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/disobedience/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:drama,family,Film Showing
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190409T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190409T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20190105T193204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190105T193204Z
UID:334-1554838200-1554843600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Saudade: A Sephardic journey
DESCRIPTION:  \n10 years ago\, after a series of seemingly disparate coincidences\, Judy Rodrigues began a journey into 300 years of East End London Jewish history\, which led her back through her grandfather’s Sephardic Marrano Jewish roots to Portugal and Northern Spain As an artist\, the histories and stories became part of ‘life being lived’ as they began to permeate\, enrich and expand the poetic metaphors of experience and place through her work. The journey became as much a search for the sense of a lost community\, as that of an individual identity. \n  \nJudy Rodrigues is an artist working in contemporary contexts with a studio at Spike Island\, Bristol. In 2008 she was awarded a residency grant in Mertola\, Portugal followed by an exhibition in Porto. In 2014 she received an Arts Council grant to work in Isle of Wight and exhibited in Dimbola Lodge\, once home of the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. In 2017 she exhibited in Pico Island\, Azores and then worked on a collaborative publication with Portuguese poet Jose Efe. Their book\, In Pico\, will be launched Jan 2019. \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/saudade-a-sephardic-journey/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:art,family,Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190327T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190327T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20190105T190842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190105T190842Z
UID:326-1553716800-1553724000@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Footnote
DESCRIPTION:  \nProfessor Eliezer Shkolnik\, an elderly Talmudic scholar\, whose long career has never amounted to much\, has always been eclipsed by his middle-aged son – Professor Uriel Shkolnik\, also a Talmudic specialist – who has been showered with all the awards and fellowships that he himself yearned for. The older man must now reconcile himself to being a footnote in his son’s life. Then\, one day\, a sensational piece of news turns everything upside down. Joseph Cedar’s Israeli movie Footnote is a sprightly\, shrewd and ingenious black comedy of middle age and disappointed ambition. (modified from Peter Bradshaw\, Guardian) \n  \nIsrael 2011\, 107 mins\, Hebrew with sub-titles \nDirected by Joseph Cedar and starring Shlomo Bar’aba and Lior Ashkenazi \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/footnote/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190324T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190324T173000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20190105T192321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190105T192321Z
UID:329-1553439600-1553448600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Jewish Influence on the British film industry and screening of The Man Who Got Carter\, a documentary about the Jewish film producer Michael Klinger
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Jewish Influence on the British film industry and screening of The Man Who Got Carter\, a documentary about the Jewish film producer Michael Klinger \n  \nThis event\, part of the Jewish Historical Society’s Jewish History Month\, jointly hosted by JHSE\, Watershed\, UWE and DAVAR will occur at the Watershed. It will provide a unique insight into the potent influence of Jewish entrepreneurs and film-makers on the UK’s film industry.  Prof. Andrew Spicer (UWE) will give an overview of how Jewish exhibitors\, distributors and producers shaped the evolution of the British film industry from its beginning to the present. Film-maker and writer Tony Klinger will introduce the feature-length documentary\, The Man Who Got Carter\, about his father\, Michael Klinger\, a highly successful independent producer from 1960 to the early 1980s whose most famous film was Get Carter (1971). The documentary will be followed by a Q and A session. \n  \nTickets available via Watershed www.watershed.co.uk \nBox Office: 0117 927 5100\, 1 Canons Road\, Harbourside\, Bristol  BS1 5TX \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/the-jewish-influence-on-the-british-film-industry-and-screening-of-the-man-who-got-carter-a-documentary-about-the-jewish-film-producer-michael-klinger/
LOCATION:Watershed\, 1 Canons Road\, Bristol\, BS1 5TX\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190312T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190312T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20190105T190605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190105T190605Z
UID:323-1552419000-1552424400@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Women of Valour
DESCRIPTION:  \nAt the heart of growing fundamentalism in the Haredi sector lies the fate of women: rabbis have decreed bans on women driving\, installed modesty patrols\, enforced gender segregation on buses\, and caused women’s faces to be omitted in newspapers and magazines. Whilst Haredi men attempt to render women voiceless and faceless\, mainstream media does little better. Haredi women\, however\, are not all sitting silently in their floor-length clothing locked in their homes despairing their helpless fate.  In a range of texts and genresthese women have been responding to their experiences. In this talk\, Karen will draw on research from her recent book\, Women of Valor\, to highlight the work Haredi women are doing today. \n  \nKaren Skinazi is a senior teaching fellow at the University of Bristol. She has recently published Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters\, Crime Writers\, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Her writing about literature\, race\, gender\, Jewish culture\, and motherhood has appeared in academic journals and popular papers \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/women-of-valour/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190227T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190227T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20190105T190236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190105T190256Z
UID:319-1551297600-1551304800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:RBG
DESCRIPTION:  \nRBG is a remarkable documentary of the career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\, which spans several decades\, and how she developed a legal legacy while becoming a pop culture icon.  In the 1970s Ginsburg played a leading role as a legal warrior for women’s rights.  “I ask for no favour for my sex\,” she said\, quoting the abolitionist Sarah Grimké from 1837. “All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” An astonishing woman who at 85\, having already survived bouts of cancer\, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the proverbial survivor. \n  \nUS 2018\, 97 mins\, English \nDirected by Betsy West starring Ruth Bader Ginsburg\, Jane Ginsburg\, Gloria Steinem \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/319/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing,social justice
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190212T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20190105T185928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190105T185928Z
UID:316-1549999800-1550005200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Finding Relly
DESCRIPTION:Rosemary grew up as the daughter of a Czech immigrant in post-war UK and Canada. She was unaware of her father’s Jewish identity and of what really happened to his absent relatives. After her father’s death\, she felt compelled to discover the truth about his family. Tracing her aunt Relly\, who had emigrated to Australia after surviving Auschwitz\, was a significant turning point in her life and her new book Finding Relly is about her journey\, both personal and logistical.Rosemary will also talk about using her book to educate schoolchildren about the Holocaust. \n  \nRosemary Schonfeld toured the world throughout the 1980s with her band Ova.  She is a professional musician and composer based in Devon. She has recorded and produced/co-produced six albums\, co-run a recording studio\, devised a teaching package for percussionists\, and is currently working on a rock opera. She has published an illustrated book of Nonsense Poetry\, Standing on Your Head\, and short stories. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/finding-relly/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:family,holocaust,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190130T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190130T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20190105T185428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190105T185428Z
UID:311-1548878400-1548885600@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:1945
DESCRIPTION:The arrival of two orthodox Jews upsets the wedding day of a rural town clerk’s son in Hungary in 1945. This drama filmed in elegant black and white is from Hungarian director Ferenc Török. It captures the collective guilt of the community who have moved into the homes and taken possession of the property of their former Jewish neighbours forcing them to face culpability and dishonour when challenged by the two men of faith. \n  \nHungary 2017\, 91 mins\, Hungarian with sub-titles (Black and White) \nDirector Ferenc Török with Péter Rudolf and Tamás Szabó Kimme \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/1945/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing,holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181211T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20180828T210639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180828T210639Z
UID:292-1544556600-1544562000@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Bagel: past\, present and future
DESCRIPTION:  \nIf smoked salmon and cream cheese bring but one thing to mind\, then you are part of a long and fascinating edible history that has brought the roll with a hole from 17th century Poland to the freezers of the modern Anglo-American home. The talk will give a cultural but light-hearted overview of this modest ring-shaped bread that has gained a place in history. \nClarissa Hyman is an award-winning freelance writer\, specialising in all aspects of food and travel taking in producers\, ingredients\, restaurants\, recipes\, food policy and consumer trends\, and she uses food as a means to explore a wider world of culture and history\, art and agriculture.  She contributes to a wide range of newspapers\, magazines and guides\, and is the author of Cucina Siciliana (Conran Octopus 2001)\, The Jewish Kitchen (2003)\, and The Spanish Kitchen (2005).  She has been shortlisted for all of the major cookery writing awards\, and twice has won the Glenfiddich Food Writer of the Year Award.  She contributed the Fruit section of Dorling Kindersley’s Ingredients (2010).  In 2013 Reaktion published her Oranges: A Global History and her next book for Reaktion “Tomatoes: A Global History” will be published in 2019. \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/the-bagel-past-present-and-future/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181128T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181128T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20180828T210352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180828T210352Z
UID:288-1543435200-1543442400@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:A bag of marbles (un sac de billes)
DESCRIPTION:Canadian director Christian Duguay explores the horrors of World War Two from the perspective of two young Jewish boys living in Nazi-occupied France in Un Sac De Billes (A Bag of Marbles). Based on the acclaimed memoirs of the same name by Joseph Joffo\, A Bag of Marbles is a lavishly shot production that is brilliantly acted and is a gut-wrenching reminder of one of history’s darkest chapters. Following the fall of Paris to Nazi Germany during World War II\, brothers Maurice (Batyste Fleurial) and Joseph (Dorian Le Clech) are forced to leave their close-knit Jewish family behind for the free-zone along the French Riviera. \n Despite the grim war scenes and the dark subject matter\, Duguay has created a lavishly shot film that boasts stunning cinematography\, lush locations and beautiful period costumes. The film beautifully balances the high stake tension with some sweet and endearing moments between the two brothers and celebrates their innocence. While the film is a dark reminder of a horrible page in our history\, its heart-warming story reminds us that there are still good people in our darkest moments (modified from Daniele Foti-Cuzzola) \nFrance 2017\, 113 mins\, French\, German\, Russian\, Yiddish; Director Christian Duguay featuring Batyste Fleurial\, Dorian Le Clech \n  \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/a-bag-of-marbles-un-sac-de-billes/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181113T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181113T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20180828T205551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180828T210831Z
UID:281-1542137400-1542142800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Belonging and belongings:  Jewish poetry in the UK today
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be a Jewish poet?  Can a non-Jew\, like Micheal O’Siadhail\, write about the Holocaust? (See The Gossamer Wall\, Bloodaxe 2002).  Maybe the Irish and the Jews have enough in common to be able to immerse themselves in each other’s histories.  Does  a writer and in particular a poet have to belong somewhere before they can write?  Who do their poems belong to?  What part do journals like Jewish Renaissance and the Jewish Quarterly play in keeping alive the identity of Jewish poets and poetry. How important are Jewish poets like Aviva Dautch\, Poet in Residence at the Jewish Museum in London\, who also works with refugees getting them to write poetry? \nLiz Cashdan is a poet and teaches Creative Writing for the Open College of the Arts. She is former Chair of the National Association of Writers in Education. She also teaches Creative Writing for the Folk House in Bristol and in schools.  She is Poetry Editor of Jewish Renaissance and in 1996 won the Jewish Quarterly poetry prize with her historical sequence\, The Tyre-Cairo Letters based on a fragment from the Cairo Geneza   She has an MA in History from Oxford and a PhD in Literature from Sheffield Hallam University.  Her latest collection is Things of Substance: New and Selected Poems (Five Leaves Publications 2013). \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/belonging-and-belongings-jewish-poetry-in-the-uk-today/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:poetry,Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181031T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181031T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20180828T210037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180828T210037Z
UID:285-1541016000-1541023200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Menashe
DESCRIPTION:“Set within the New York Hasidic community in Borough Park\, Brooklyn\, Menashe follows a kind but hapless grocery store clerk trying to maintain custody of his son Rieven after his wife\, Lea\, passes away. Since they live in a tradition-bound culture that requires a mother present in every home\, Rieven is supposed to be adopted by the boy’s strict\, married uncle\, but Menashe’s Rabbi decides to grant him one week to spend with Rieven prior to Lea’s memorial. Their time together creates an emotional moment of father/son bonding as well as offers Menashe a final chance to prove to his skeptical community that he can be a capable parent. \nShot in secret entirely within the Hasidic community depicted in the film\, and one of the only movies to be performed in Yiddish in nearly 70 years\, Menashe is a warm\, life-affirming look at the universal bonds between father and son that also sheds unusual light on a notoriously private community. Based largely on the real life of its Hasidic star Menashe Lustig\, the film is a strikingly authentic and deeply moving portrait of family\, love\, connection\, and community.” (taken from https://a24films.com/films) \nUS 2017\, 81 mins\, Yiddish (subtitled)  Director Joshua Z Weinstein featuring Menashe Lustig\, Ruben Nibroski \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/menashe/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181009T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181009T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20180828T204135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180828T204135Z
UID:275-1539113400-1539118800@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Jews of India
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nDating back to the time of King Solomon\, some of the oldest Jewish communities in the world are to be found in India. In 2016\, Sonia Jackson joined a tour of Indian Jewish sites and synagogues organised by Maidenhead Synagogue and led by Ralphy and Yael Jhirad. She will give an illustrated talk about the synagogues they visited and their social and historical context. \nSonia Jackson is an Emeritus Professor at UCL Institute of Education. She is a past Chair of Davar and continues to have a strong commitment to supporting Jewish cultural life in Bristol and the surrounding area \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/the-jews-of-india/
LOCATION:Redland Green Bowling Club\, Redland Green Road\, Redland\, BS6 7HE
CATEGORIES:India,Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180926T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180926T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T204510
CREATED:20180828T204458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180828T211102Z
UID:278-1537992000-1537999200@davarbristol.co.uk
SUMMARY:Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr story
DESCRIPTION:There can hardly be any more extraordinary story from the Hollywood golden age than that of Hedy Lamarr; an assimilated Austrian Jew\, a very beautiful star with a moderate acting talent but an untutored brilliance in science and engineering.. Her tragedy was that she was in the wrong business\, precisely that business that promotes beauty over brains – the movie business. Alexandra Dean’s excellent and important documentary about her is very instructive – a parable of modern sexual politics and assumptions about science. Lamarr was an enigma: a great brain trapped in a silly\, spurious image of glamour\, while her real talent was allowed to wither. A sad but fascinating story. (modified from Peter Bradshaw review) \nThe film has won several awards since being shown at the Tribeca Film Festival\, including a New York Times Critic’s Pick and five audience awards. J. Hoberman named it “one of the ten best films of 2017 \n  \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)
URL:https://davarbristol.co.uk/event/bombshell-the-hedy-lamarr-story/
LOCATION:Scott Cinema\, Bristol\, Northumbria Drive\, Henleaze\, Bristol\, Avon\,  BS9 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film Showing
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