A Different Kind of Synagogue | Judaism Beyond Belief
Yom HaShoah, Wednesday Evening, April 23rd
As the last survivors of the Shoah are gathered to their ancestors, we wonder how the experience of the holocaust can be part of our personal and collective histories.
Two films made sixty years apart, The Pawnbroker and A Real Pain explore the impact of this trauma on generations. Never again are any of us the way we were before.
Join us in person or on zoom to better understand who we are.
The Pawnbroker is a film from 1964 that tells the story of a Jewish professor from Krakow who barely survived the camps and lives every day in hell of denial as a New York pawnbroker. It is available for free on the platforms Pluto TV or Kanopy. It is also available to rent on Amazon Prime Video and other platforms.
A Real Pain is the 2024 multiple award winning movie of two cousins who visit their grandmother’s house in Poland on a Holocaust Heritage tour. Theirs is a story of bringing out the pain they carry with them. It is available to watch on Hulu, and Disney+ or for rent on Amazon Prime Video and other platforms.
Together, these two films capture how, from generation to generation, the Holocaust has become internalized in all of us.
Here is the program:
6:00-7:30 pm CDT— We will show A Real Pain. Unfortunately, we cannot show it on Zoom.
7:45 pm CDT— We will have a discussion in person and on Zoom, about both films led by David Miller and Marc Slutsky. We’ll also have pizzas as a snack during the discussion.
