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Press Contact: Elfriede Lynch
(561) 297-3020
April 11, 2003
AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY ON THE LOST WOODEN SYNAGOGUES
OF EASTERN EUROPE TO BE SHOWN LOCALLY ON WPBT TV
An award-winning documentary on The Lost Wooden Synagogues of Eastern Europe, produced under the auspices of the Florida Atlantic University Library, will be broadcast on WPBT television on Wednesday, April 23, at 8 p.m.
A fund-drive spearheaded by the Library funded the project headed by Albert Barry, a photo journalist and graphic artist. Barry and his film crew, the Emmy-award-winning film team of Carl and Kathy Hersh, traveled to Lithuania and Latvia to film the six synagogues that were known to remain. While there, they discovered another four such structures,. Before World War II, more than 1,000 wooden synagogues dotted the small villages of Eastern Europe where they were the center of Jewish life. The significance of these vestiges of the past is captured on the film, which is narrated by Theodore Bikel. An original score was composed by Dr. Stuart Glazer of FAU's Department of Music.
Reviewers of the film point to its great historical and educational significance (Center for Jewish Culture, Cracow, Poland), and state that "Albert Barry saves a bit of Jewish history with his film" (SanDiego Jewish Times). The film won awards at the Videographers Award Festival, the Louis Wolfson Media History Center Film and Video Awards, the U.S. International Film and Video Festival, the Film Advisor Board and the Dove Foundation.
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