1564 Stories Film Event: The Czech Torah Scrolls and the Space Between Myth and Truth
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This documentary film explores the remarkable and often misunderstood journey of Torah scrolls that survived the Holocaust and ultimately found homes in synagogues around the world, including five in the Twin Cities. Today, in nearly 1300 synagogues, institutions, museums, and places of distinction around the world, a Czech Torah Scroll resides. Whether it’s used in worship, or displayed as a memorial, the Scroll’s mere existence can be seen as a miracle. The story that accompanied these Scrolls was that they were collected by the Nazis during the war to be used in a “Museum of an Extinct Race”. It is startling. Even plausible. But it isn’t true.
Following the film will be a Q & A with Dale Bluestein
Dale Bluestein is a Twin Cities–based producer, writer, director, and editor with more than three decades of experience in visual storytelling. He has produced commercial, nonprofit, and historical documentary work, with a particular focus on Jewish history in the Midwest.
Co-presented with the Macalester College’s Center for Religious and Spiritual life and Macalester Jewish Organization and planned in partnership with: Bet Shalom Congregation, Czech & Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota, Minnesota Hillel, Count Zion, Temple Israel, and Temple of Aaron.
This documentary film explores the remarkable and often misunderstood journey of Torah scrolls that survived the Holocaust and ultimately found homes in synagogues around the world, including five in the Twin Cities. Today, in nearly 1300 synagogues, institutions, museums, and places of distinction around the world, a Czech Torah Scroll resides. Whether it’s used in worship, or displayed as a memorial, the Scroll’s mere existence can be seen as a miracle. The story that accompanied these Scrolls was that they were collected by the Nazis during the war to be used in a “Museum of an Extinct Race”. It is startling. Even plausible. But it isn’t true.
Following the film will be a Q & A with Dale Bluestein
Dale Bluestein is a Twin Cities–based producer, writer, director, and editor with more than three decades of experience in visual storytelling. He has produced commercial, nonprofit, and historical documentary work, with a particular focus on Jewish history in the Midwest.
Co-presented with the Macalester College’s Center for Religious and Spiritual life and Macalester Jewish Organization and planned in partnership with: Bet Shalom Congregation, Czech & Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota, Minnesota Hillel, Count Zion, Temple Israel, and Temple of Aaron.
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Macalester College, 1600 Grand Ave,Saint Paul,MN,United States
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