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Hop Film: Carpati: 50 Miles, 50 Years

A moving portrait of the last stronghold of Jewish life in a once vibrant region, as seen through the eyes of a Holocaust survivor returning to his hometown. Free & Unticketed

1/30/2024
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Films

A moving portrait of the last stronghold of Jewish life in a once vibrant region, as seen through the eyes of a Holocaust survivor returning to his hometown. Free & Unticketed. 

Q&A with director Yale Strom will follow.

Zev Godinger hasn't seen his homeland since being deported to Auschwitz, in 1944. 50 years later, he is ready to take the pilgrimage back home. He brings with him the Roma music he has learned since being away and a Torah from the US as a gift for his boyhood synagogue. In 1931, Godinger's hometown in the Carpathian region (then Czechoslovakia, now Ukraine) had a Jewish community of a quarter million. Today, there are less than 1,500. Moving and beautiful, this film captures the unique melodies and cadences of this region and uncovers the last stronghold of Jewish life in an area once home to a thriving community.

In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the rediscovery and safeguarding of the Czech Torah scrolls that survived the Holocaust. Programmed in conjunction with the Upper Valley Jewish Community and Dartmouth Hillel, which are co-trustees of one of the 1,600 rescued scrolls. Learn more memorialscrollstrust.org.

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For more information, contact:
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Hopkins.Center.for.the.Arts@dartmouth.edu
603 646 2422
Permanent URL to this event: https://music.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=72270

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