Evento

THE NAME MY MOTHER GAVE ME/THE FIRE WITHIN

Monday, June 14, 2:00 p.m.
THE NAME MY MOTHER GAVE ME
St. Louis Premiere
Israel, 2008
Hebrew/Amharic with
English subtitles
Documentary
Director: Eli Tal-El 56 min.
Following a year-long leadership program, a group of Israeli teens returns to their Ethiopian homeland where,
on a life-changing journey, they experience joys and disappointments in confronting their past. All discover
personal identities while gaining an understanding of their new lives in Israel.
Introduction by Batya Abramson Goldstein, Executive Director, Jewish Community Relations Council.

THE FIRE WITHIN
St. Louis Premiere
Peru, 2008
English/Spanish with English
subtitles Documentary
Director: Lorry Salcedo Mitrani
55 min.
During the late 19th century rubber boom, Moroccan Jews came to the Amazonian rainforests of Peru, married
indigenous women and kept names like Cohen, Pinto and Kahn. Many settled in the remote village of Iquitos.
Original Jewish traditions blended with Amazonian life creating an authentic, but practically unknown form of
Judaism. Many families have immigrated to Israel while others have stayed in Iquitos to be reconverted to
more normative Judaism by well-intentioned rabbis.