[YSU-Jewish] Tuesday, Sept. 12 Films for Film Festival

[ysu-jewish at lists.ysu.edu]

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 7 pm
The Ritchie Boys (dir. by Christian Bauer)
Austintown Cinema

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 12 pm
Short Films from Youngstown Area Jewish Film Festival
The Butler Institute of American Art

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 12 pm
Marti - the passionate eye (dir. by Shirley Horrocks)
Youngstown Jewish Community Center at 505 Gypsy Lane

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 4 pm
Apart in this World (dir. By Mauricio Chernovetzky)
The McDonough Museum of Art


See below for more details on each film and for a list of films on 
Wednesday:

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 7 pm
The Ritchie Boys (dir. by Christian Bauer)
Austintown Cinema
COST: $2 for YSU students and $5 for non-students at the door 

>From one of Europe’s leading documentary filmmakers comes THE RITCHIE 
BOYS, a moving and enlightening documentary which provides a sharp 
insight into the Nazi mind. THE RITCHIE BOYS begins in deeply secret 
Camp Ritchie, Maryland, the birthplace of modern psychological warfare, 
and ends with the defeat of Germany in May of 1945, and offers the 
untold story of a brave group of German Jews. As teenagers they had 
escaped the Nazis, and they formed an elite U.S. intelligence unit 
during WWII. Their knowledge of the German language and psyche made 
them well-suited to their mission to break the German army’s morale. 
They were the world's most unlikely soldiers but equipped with the 
greatest motivation to fight in this war: they were Jewish. The 
documentary is full of striking period footage, some of it never seen 
before, but it is the anecdotes of the Ritchie Boys - both entertaining 
and chilling – which form the film's heart. Now in their 80s, they 
never met for reunions, nor join veteran associations. When the war was 
over, their German accents and unusual histories did not make them 
welcome in the usual veterans’ circles. They never forgot the war. They 
just never spoke about it. 


Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 12 pm
Short Films from Youngstown Area Jewish Film Festival
The Butler Institute of American Art

The following short films will be screened: being steven spielberg 
(dir. by Mike Kimmel and Dave Sontag) Jewz N the Hood (dir. by Joshua 
Stern) ‘Biaat Ha Massiah’ (In the Days of the Messiah dir. by Guy 
Dimenstein) The Unbroken Circle (dir. by John C. Ludwig) and Pituco 
(dir. by Alejandro Heiber). These films will again be screened on 
Friday, September 15 at 4 pm at the McDonough Museum of Art. For more 
on each of these films, click here. This event is free and open to the 
public. 

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 12 pm
Marti - the passionate eye (dir. by Shirley Horrocks)
Youngstown Jewish Community Center at 505 Gypsy Lane

”Marti” traces the dramatic personal story of Marti Friedlander, who 
was brought up in a Jewish orphanage in England, emigrated to New 
Zealand and became one of New Zealand’s greatest photographers. Marti’s 
story runs along side the major social changes that have happened to 
New Zealand during her lifetime. Marti will be screened again on 
Thursday, March 14 at 4 pm in the McDonough Museum of Art. This event 
is free and open to the public. 

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 4 pm
Apart in this World (dir. By Mauricio Chernovetzky)
The McDonough Museum of Art

'Boris Babaev, an Orthodox Jew from Tajikistan, meets a secular Jewish 
Mexican-American filmmaker in Poland. This documentary is the result, a 
lyrical and contemplative piece, which captures Boris's struggle to 
find his place in the world. When Boris encounters young Poles who are 
discovering their Jewish roots, he decides to prepare them a Kosher 
Tajikian dish, which means putting his skills as a Shochet or ritual 
slaughterer to the test. But before he can do so, he has to find a 
sheep...' This event is free and open to the public. 


Wednesday, September 13

Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 10 am - 5 pm 
Variations on a theme: To be An Israeli Woman (selected portions)
The Jones Room, Kilcawley Center

This documentry film, which is part of the Youngstown Area Jewish Film 
Festival, tells a saga about Israeli society from five feminine point 
of view: Regina from Lod, born in the Ukraine; Lea settler, from Ofra, 
born in Israel; Aziza from Shfar’am, born in Israel, Rebecca from 
Haifa, born in Ethiopia and Naomi from Ma’ale Adomim born in England. 
Each woman is an one hour-long variation of the theme. Each one hour 
portrait will be screened with a 15 minute break in between. All the 
five women are involved in educational matters and represent various 
sectors of Israeli society. Each episode is constructed as a portrait, 
inviting the viewer into the subject’s home and into her culture and 
highlighting her uniqueness. In each chronicle the local landscapes 
plays a significant role. The structure of the film, divided into 
independent portraits, reflects the structure of Israeli society: 
connections are rarely formed between people from different sectors and 
different communities; it is this segregation leads to the clichés and 
preconceived ideas we hold. The film examines the meaning of identity 
in a land of immigrants like Israel – in the search for roots, the 
tension between tradition and modernity, between past and present, 
between Israeli identity and Jewish identity, as well as in the 
difficulties facsd by other ethnic identities. In the mirror that the 
five women hold up to us, we will see images different from the ones we 
had before the beginning of the film. This event is free and open to 
the public.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 12 pm
MAGIC(S) (dir. by Todd Felderstein)
The Butler Institute of American Art

In a moving display of 'tikkun olam', a beloved magician conjures 
laughter and humor from Palestinian and Jewish kids living together 
while hospitalized due to injury and disease. As a medical magician and 
very gifted and generous entertainer, Magic Michael details how two 
cultures, embroiled in war, can continue to function, side by side, 
both in a hospital and on the map. This event is free and open to the 
public. 

Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 4 pm
Citizen Stan (dir. by Patty Sharaf)
The McDonough Museum of Art

This documentry film, which is part of the Youngstown Area Jewish Film 
Festival, tells the story of Stanley Shienbaum. In the 1950s at 
Michigan State University, Stanley Sheinbaum co-directs the Vietnam 
Project, but when he learns that the CIA is involved, and his people 
are torturing Vietcong prisoners, he quits in disgust. Disillusioned, 
Sheinbaum embarks on a lifetime of activism, organizing Daniel 
Ellsberg's defense during the Pentagon Papers trial, landing on Nixon's 
enemies list. In tales of intrigue, he bravely saves a colleague from 
the Greek junta, spars with LA Police Chief Daryl Gates, brings Arafat 
to the UN to denouce terrorism: Sheinbaum's life story holds the 
lessons of the history we share. Interviews with Robert Scheer, Daniel 
Ellsberg, Margaret Papandreou, former L.A. Police Chief Daryl Gates, 
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Warren Beatty. Narrated by Richard 
Dreyfuss. This event is free and open to the public. 

Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 7 pm
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Directed by Marc Levin)
Beeghley College of Education 

This documentary is about the rise of anti-Semitism in the USA after 
the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It will be followed by a 
panel Discussion on Post-9/11 Anti-Semitism in the United States. On 
the heels of the 9/11 attacks filmmaker Marc Levin is shocked by a 
rumor on the streets of New York: no Jews were killed in the bombings – 
they were warned to stay home. In an effort to understand this latest 
anti-Semitic myth, he grabs a camera and engages in a free-for-all 
dialogue with Arab Americans, Black nationalists, Christian 
evangelists, White supremacists, Kabbalist rabbis, Holocaust survivors, 
and the founder of the alarmingly popular Jew Watch website. Many of 
his subjects cite “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a notorious 
forgery created 100 years ago that purports to be the Jews’ master plan 
to rule the world, as the inspiration for their hate. Full of genuine 
curiosity, confrontational conversations, and moments of unexpected 
humor, the film creates a disconcerting portrait of modern civilization 
caught in the grip of an ancient hatred. 




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Helene J. Sinnreich, Ph.D.
Director, Judaic and Holocaust Studies
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555
330-941-1603
hjsinnreich at ysu.edu
www.ysu.edu/judaic