[2nd Floor] Screening of the Romanian documentary film “Teach ” (Profu’), recipinet of the Best Central and East European Documentary Film Award at the 2019 Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival. A peculiar math teacher from Transilvania is becoming a local Don Quijote when he quits the conventional educational system and opens a private lectures office in his own two-room apartment.…
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Among aficionados and practitioners, the term cantorial “Golden Age” draws to mind a discrete body of work recorded by a well-known cadre of Eastern European cantors working in Europe and America in the 1900s-30s. This narrative of a Golden Age was shaped by cantors working in tandem with commercial distribution networks, advertisements in print media, and the efforts of intellectuals…
Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be fraught – ignored, appropriated, or obfuscated – throughout Eastern Europe, the principal location of the Holocaust. As part of European Union accession process, Jelena Subotić shows, East European states were required to adopt, participate in and contribute to the already established Western narrative of the Holocaust. This has created…