It's a Wrap!

Double Feature presented in cooperation with ArtsEmerson
The Paramount Center, Downtown Boston | Buy Tickets

Mamadrama: The Jewish Mother in Cinema
April 2, 7:00 pm & April 3, 5:30 pm

A Letter to Mother
April 2, 8:45 pm & April 3, 7:00 pm

Libya The Last Jews of Libya Documentary, 50 min.
Iraq Baklava and the Meaning of Life Documentary, 23 min.
Tunisia Pillar of Salt Drama, 58 min.
Iraq Nana: Un Portrait Documentary, 23 min.
Iraq Braids Drama, 90 min.
Egypt I Miss the Sun Documentary, 20 min.

Today Show interview with Ruth Gruber, pioneering journalist. | Link

Pre-order DVD of the award-winning new documentary
Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber

Just Announced! New Releases
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Grace Paley's Winning Streak Continues!

"Best of Fest" Palm Springs International Film Festival 2011
Best Documentary Audience Award, Washington Jewish Film Festival
Best Documentary People's Choice Award, Starz Denver Film Festival
Best Documentary Audience Award, Woodstock Film Festival

Me and the Jewish Thing Award Winner!

Best Documentary, São Paulo Jewish Film Festival

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NCJF archive footage in permanent exhibition the new National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA | Museum Site

See rare film clips including: Yiddle Home Movies Ben Gurion
Eddie Cantor Soviet Jewry Rally (Pictured at left)

Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi Doctors
U.S. Theatrical Premiere at Film Forum, NYC:
“Lifton’s elegantly reasoned, 87-minute response to events that were famously declared to have put an end to poetry brings us closer to the truth of what happened than gruesome images ever could.” –Village Voice Book Screenings Now

"Singing Sensation"
Tablet article on Moishe Oysher:
“One of the great celebrity cantors and Yiddish movie stars of the World War II era.” | Full Article

"Picture This"
Brandeis Magazine article on NCJF:
“Encompassing everything from Nazi propaganda films to vaudeville skits, the center’s collection does not gather dust on the archive shelves, but is deployed by thousands of scholars and filmmakers.” | Full Article

Paul Mazursky Receives Career Achievement Award!
From the Los Angeles Film Critics Association
See Mazursky's Yippee: A Journey to Jewish Joy

Congratulations to Eli Wallach
Academy Award winner.
See Wallach in Advice and Dissent and The Impossible Spy

Bernard Mahler Timberg (1945-2010)
Professor, social activist & filmmaker whose film collection resides with NCJF. | Obituary from the Charlotte Observer (PDF)
Left: Timberg's footage of Vietnam War demonstration.

Sir Nicholas Winton honored
A statue honoring the "British Schindler" who rescued 669 Czech Jewish children, was unveiled. Winton, aged 101, attended the dedication ceremony. | Article
Nicholas Winton: The Power of Good

Singing in the Dark
"In this post-Holocaust variation on The Jazz Singer, Moishe Oysher plays a German cantor who loses his family and his memory during the war." - J. Hoberman

Bar Mitzvah
A shund sensation starring Boris Thomashefsky in his only film performance! "Lightning bolts of cinematic revelation," -The New Yorker

| All NCJF Yiddish Restorations

Restored Silent Films with Live Music
Host a memorable movie experience!

Jewish Luck
His People

| NCJF Restored Silent Films