Back to the Old World:

The Avram Matlofsky Memorial Program
Funded by the Karma Foundation

Location: Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center
100 George Street, New Brunswick
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Public program followed by reception

Please RSVP online here by March 8.

Two Jewish filmmakers will screen clips from their work and discuss the role that
filmmaking has played in documenting their journeys from the United States to Eastern
Europe in search of personal, familial, and communal pasts.

Filmmaker Marian Marzynski (Shtetl) journeys to Bransk, a small Polish shtetl in Eastern Poland, where his confrontation with the past begins. Shtetl takes a bold and illuminating look at Jewish/Polish relations both in the past and the present.

More on the film Shtetl

In her documentary Divan, filmmaker Pearl Gluck travels from her Hasidic community in Brooklyn to her roots in Hungary. Along the way, a colorful cast of characters gets involved—the couch exporter, her ex-communist cousin, a pair of matchmakers, and a renegade group of formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews. Divan is a visual parable that offers the possibility of personal reinvention and cultural re-upholstery.

More on the film Divan