Jewish Family Service invites you to a special screening of “Three Minutes: A Lengthening,” a documentary written and directed by Bianca Stigter, narrated by award-winning actress Helena Bonham Carter and co-produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen. So long as we are watching history, history is not over. Three minutes of footage, shot by David Kurtz […]
Join us for an exciting exploration of Bulgaria’s rich Jewish heritage, from the arrival of Sephardic Jews in the 15th century to the survival of 50,000 Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust. Our final destination will be Jaffa, Israel, where large numbers of Bulgarian Jews settled between 1948 and 1952. Joseph Benatov holds a Ph.D. in […]
From its opening in 1927 to its closure in 1939, Littman’s People’s Theatre was Detroit’s premier destination for Yiddish-language theatrical performance and film. Managed and founded by Abraham Littman, the theater served as one of the most significant hubs of Yiddish-language cultural production and consumption in Detroit. Nadav Pais-Greenapple is a second-generation Jewish educator from […]