The East German-Bulgarian Holocaust movie ‘Sterne,’ screening this weekend at the New York Jewish Film Festival, is one of a group of visceral films made in Communist countries by or with people who survived the war
Amos Gitai’s polemical new documentary—opening in U.S. theaters Friday—on the 1995 assassination that rocked Israel sacrifices facts in favor of sensation
A live-score screening of the Yiddish classic The Yellow Ticket helps launch the city’s Jewish cinema celebration
Agenda: A month of Jewish film in New York, Shalom Auslander reads in Boston, Donna Karan shops, Susan Sontag is revived, and more
Readers’ reviews from the 2009 New York Jewish Film Festival
A picture of post-Soviet provincial life, both Jewish and gentile