FILM SCREENING | Nathan-ism
Date and Time
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT
Wednesday, June 19 @ 2:00 p.m. ET
Location
Yiddish Book Center, 1021 West St, Amherst, MA 01002
Fees/Admission
$6 for members and students, $8 for general admission. Tickets can be bought online at https://support.yiddishbookcenter.org/site/Ticketing?view=Tickets&id=10763&s_src=Event&s_subsrc=nathanweds
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Contact Information
Eva Gellman, Yiddish Book Center
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Description
Join us for an in-person screening of Nathan-ism, a film by Elan Golod, at the Yiddish Book Center. At the end of World War II, Nathan Hilu, the son of Syrian Jewish immigrants to New York, received a life-changing assignment from the U.S. Army: to guard the top Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials. This experience fueled a lifetime of artistic inspiration for Nathan, a virtually unknown “outsider artist,” who spent the next 70 years obsessively creating a visual narrative from his memories. Nathan-ism explores Nathan's relationship with his own stories, and the compulsion he has to share them with a world that doesn't always listen.
