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Joseph Dorman and Oren Rudavsky Private Editing Session and Film Package

Item Number
135
Estimated Value
500 USD
Sold
235 USD to egee33
Number of Bids
4  -  Bid History

Item Description

Enjoy four Foundation for Jewish Culture's Kroll Jewish Documentary Films from Riverside Films and Oren Rudavsky Films:
  • Arguing the World: This film is the story of four brilliant and engaging men caught up in the central struggles of our time. This enthralling film creates a vivid picture of intellectual life in the 20th century. For more than half a century, Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer and Irving Kristol have all passionately believed that ideas can change the world-especially their ideas.
  • Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness: This film tells the tale of the rebellious genius who created an entirely new literature. Plumbing the depths of a Jewish world locked in crisis and on the cusp of profound change, he captured that world with brilliant humor. Sholem Aleichem was not just a witness to the creation of a new modern Jewish identity, but one of the very men who forged it.
  • A Life Apart: Hasidism in America: This film is the first in-depth documentary about a distinctive, traditional Eastern European religious community. In an historic migration after World War II, Hasidism found it most vital center in America. Both challenging and embracing American values, Hasidim seek those things which many Americans find most precious: family, community, and a close relationship to God. Integrating critical and analytical scholarship with a portrait of the daily life, beliefs, and history of contemporary Hasidic Jews in New York City, the film focuses on the conflicts, burdens, and rewards of the Hasidic way of life.
  • Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance after the Holocaust: This 2004 documentary film about Menachem Daum, an Orthodox Jew and son of German Nazi Holocaust survivors who has spent his life interviewing survivors about the impact of the Holocaust on their lives. After hearing a disturbing tape of a rabbi openly preaching "hatred" of non-Jews, Daum attempts to raise an outcry in his Brooklyn Orthodox community. When ignored by the media and community leaders, Daum decides to fly to Israel to discuss the matter with his two sons, concerned with the "ethical legacy" he is responsible for leaving them.
Also, be the first to preview clips in the editing room of The Zionist IdeaJoseph Dorman and Oren Rudavsky's latest joint film. Discuss the project over tea with the producers.  Read more about it here: thezionistidea.com  
More information about Joseph Dorman and Riverside Films can be found at www.riversidefilms.com.
More information about Oren Rudavsky Films can be found at orenrudavskyfilms.com.  

Item Special Note

Editing room visit will be in New York.  Visit to be scheduled at a mutually agreed upon time.

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