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In the tradition of The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs and Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler comes Abigail Pogrebin's My Jewish Year, a lively chronicle of the author's journey into the spiritual heart of Judaism. Although she grew up following some holiday rituals, Pogrebin realized how little she knew about their foundational purpose and contemporary relevance; she wanted to understand...
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
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The final film from groundbreaking auteur Chantal Akerman, NO HOME MOVIE is a portrait of her relationship with her mother, Natalia, a Holocaust survivor and familiar presence in many of her daughter's films. At once disarmingly intimate and formally rigorous, NO HOME MOVIE is a singualr exploration of family, memory and history.
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"Hard to believe but true: The Passover Seder is a Greco-Roman symposium banquet ; The Talmud rabbis presented themselves as Stoic philosophers ; Synagogue buildings were Roman basilicas ; Hellenistic rhetoric professors educated sons of well-to-do Jews ; Zeus-Helios is depicted in synagogue mosaics across ancient Israel ; The Jewish courts were named after the Roman political institution, the Sanhedrin ; In Israel there were synagogues where the...
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