One of the advantages of virtual festival is the same advantage streaming services have over now old-school broadcast TV, which offers one-time programs available only at a specified time.
While you watch our festival films on your own schedule, as you would with Netflix, you also benefit from the virtual festival’s ability to access a stellar list of international guests who could never converge in Boulder for an in-person event.
Our esteemed tribute guest
Pierre Sauvage not only agreed to spend the week with us, and to discuss the entirety of his work with our audience, but also to invite special guest speakers to comment on his films – contacts acquired over his 40-year career as a filmmaker and Holocaust authority.
Pierre Sauvage
Pierre set about finding every leading expert at the time, and, tellingly, used the music of a new group called Klezmorim – the world’s first klezmer revival band, widely credited with spearheading the global renaissance of klezmer in the ’80s. Little did Pierre know how prescient his documentary would be.
Today, more than 40 years after the film was made, we have the unique opportunity to view this time capsule and to discuss the surprising evolution of Yiddish with current leading lights.
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Yiddish: The Mother Tongue” is part of our retrospective tribute to Pierre Sauvage on the occasion of his remastered re-release of 1989’s Holocaust hallmark, “
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When U.S. officials finally learned about Israel’s nuclear weapons back in the 1970s and 80s, they were completely shocked because they had underestimated Israel.
The officials admitted when they first saw some of those warheads, “Our thought was ‘Holy shit!’ How could we have been so wrong? We always said, ‘So the Israelis got ten warheads? Okay. So what? Anybody can build those.’ All of a sudden we learned they’d become sophisticated. It blew everybody’s mind.’”[1]
Others in the Reagan administration were “paranoid.” One official declared, “It was kept away from the people at Z Division [a special group that provides the United States Intelligence Community with information about foreign nuclear programs].”[2]
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What seems at first to be a weary fourth round in a two-year-long election cycle could instead turn out to be one of the biggest dramas in Israel’s political history.
After polling day on 23 March, Israel’s prime minister will once again be a right-winger. But it might not be Benjamin Netanyahu, or in fact anyone from his ruling Likud party.
Such a scenario has never happened before. Over almost 45 years, right-wing prime ministers and whoever led Likud were synonymous; over the past 12 years, the name Benjamin Netanyahu has been part of that equation.
On Wednesday, 3 March, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, confirmed the âinitiation of an investigation respecting the Situation in Palestineâ. This will only âcover crimes within the jurisdiction of the Courtâ over a very short period of time, since 13 June 2014. Bensouda note that âthe decision to open an investigation followed a painstaking preliminary examination undertaken by my Office that lasted close to five years.â There is certainly nothing hasty or ill-considered about this ICC decision. It should be remembered that, in 2017, it was Fatou Bensouda who declined to commence an investigation into allegations made about the conduct of the Israeli Defence Forces in the case of the