Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-Chief
• Published September 13, 2022
Mark your calendars for Sunday, Sept. 18, for not one but two noteworthy events.
The first, returning after a three-year delay because of COVID, is the Jewish arts and culture festival, Sababa, featuring dozens of visual artists, kid-friendly musical...
Jordan Palmer and Eric Berger
• Published April 20, 2022
Nine PBS is re-airing an important documentary on Holocaust survivors who settled in Kansas City after World War II. Two of them later moved to St. Louis.
“All These Delicate Sorrows,” which premiered last June will reair Sunday, April 24 at 4...
(JTA) — A screenwriter who worked with Albert Speer to try to turn the infamous Nazi architect’s life into a movie is charging that an award-winning Israeli documentary about Speer makes significant ethical lapses in its use of archival material.
Andrew...
MICHAEL FOX, The Jewish News of Northern California
• Published August 11, 2021
Contrary to what one might expect, the central question raised by the all-over-the-map documentary “The Meaning of Hitler” is not “Can Hitler happen here, and now?”
That was an interesting premise for academic debate in 1966. Not today. The...
(JTA) — An Oscar-winning documentary about the experience of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust that was produced by Steven Spielberg will be made available for streaming on Netflix.
“The Last Days” will be remastered from the original 35 mm...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published November 14, 2019
Kay Wilson used to lead tours around Israel but now travels around the world to tell her own story. She does so despite having to wear earplugs when she is in loud places to avoid triggering symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and needing to rest...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 6, 2019
The delightful documentary “Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles” actually begins with a fiddler on a roof, but not the one we expect to see. A violinist in a tuxedo, seated on a New York rooftop garden, plays the familiar opening tune from the beloved...
By Sam Mosher, Staff Writer
• Published May 31, 2018
Kansas City’s Metcalf South Mall in 2011 was a virtual ghost town of gated entrances, empty parking lots and closed storefronts. But one last establishment owned by the bubbly, big-hearted Sonia Warshawski remained open: her colorful tailor shop.Sonia’s...
With “Hamilton” fever raging in St. Louis now that the hit musical has arrived at the Fox Theatre and is playing (through April 22) to sold-out crowds, you might be interested to know that an academic is making a case that Alexander Hamilton was,...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 18, 2012
In 1948, the United States government produced a documentary about the Nuremberg war crimes trials to be shown to the German people as part of the de-Nazification effort. But the film, which movingly details the international effort to bring Nazi war...
