Stowe Jewish Film Festival 2022: Yerusalem: “Yerusalem” is the story of a powerful religious yearning that has been passed down from father to son for countless generations. A desire for a “Yerusalem” tied with gold threads. A Yerusalem which became Jerusalem, the capital of Israel. These are stories of inspiring heroic actions by individuals and communities.
Broadening the mainstream narratives of both Jewish immigration and the borderlands, UnRaveling reveals an unusual personal history while examining broader, longstanding sagas about the border region—geopolitics, family, immigration, commerce, and culture, then and now.
Coming from a European family, tightlipped about its past, I travelled to India – where I found the last seven Jews of a 2000-year-old Jewish community. I also found my ‘Jewish grandmother’ here, 95-year-old Sarah Cohen who asked me to pass on the memory of this unique coexistence between Muslims, Hindus and Jews. Only later I realized that discrimination did exist in Cochin too.
The 2022 Stowe Jewish Film Festival will conclude with Mamboniks Ahora! a festive multidisciplinary evening of food, dance, music and film discussion at the JCOGS in Stowe!
