Following one’s passion as a form of rebellion is a common theme among the three films featured in the upcoming inaugural Hamilton Jewish Film Festival (HJFF), which takes place at the Westdale Theatre on March 22 and 23, 2020.
This year’s Lillian and Marvin Goldblatt Lecture in Jewish Studies, presented in October by McMaster University’s Department of Religious Studies and The Socrates Project, exemplified how Soviet Jews used satirical music to sing in the face of the atrocities of war.
The Hamilton Jewish Film Festival will run March 21-22, 2020 at The Westdale and feature films from around the world.
Recently, an ad hoc committee has formed to popularize historian Gerald Tulchinsky's memoir and to interpret Brantford’s Jewish history.
Slawomir Grunberg beamed as he looked out at the Hamilton audience after a screening of his film “Karski and the Lords of Humanity.”
