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Thursday, January 9, 2025

The Jewish World on the Big Screen. Cinema as a tool, and as a pretext

Cycle of lectures 2025

From the creation of Hollywood as a film industry to films that teach the cruelty of the Holocaust, cinema has been a powerful tool for telling stories, cultures and identities that make up the contemporary Jewish world. Through the seventh art, narratives have been woven about Jewish culture, the Jewish people, Jewish history. The cycle proposes to explore where this association between cinema and the Jewish fact comes from, and what plot of connections we can find between one and the other.

Program

Thursday, January 23 - 6:30 p.m.
Pensar i mostrar el mal: l'Holocaust al cinema, by Xavier Antich, University of Girona.

Wednesday, February 19 - 6:30 p.m.
Cineastes israelians davant la Guerra: David Perlov i els seus hereus, by Imma Merino, University of Girona.

Thursday, March 20 - 6:30 p.m.
Una història política: el sionisme i la creació d'Israel al cinema, by Anna Maria Garcia, University of Girona.

Thursday, April 24 - 6:30 p.m.
Walter Benjamin: a propòsit del cinema, by Paula Kuffer, University of Barcelona.

Thursday, May 22 - 6:30 p.m.
Jewishwood: la contribució jueva al naixement i auge de Hollywood, by Jordi Dorca, Museo del Cine.

You can access the recorded lectures thanks to the Digital Audio and Video Repository of the University of Girona (DUGI Media).

Place: Nahmanides Institute for Jewish Studies
Free assistance with prior registration.

Cycle organized jointly by the Nahmanides Institute for Jewish Studies and the Chair Ferrater Mora of Contemporary Thought of the University of Girona