Modern Hebrew Annual Lecture and Short Film Festival

At Magdalene College, Cripps Auditorium, 1-3 Chesterton Road, Cambridge
Levantine: The life of Jacqueline Kahanov
She was the first writer and intellectual who spoke about Mizrahi identity in Israel and did so in extraordinary ways. The film charts the portrait of an unusual woman as well as the birth and history of Mizrahi identity in Israel as a cultural option.
Yeshurun in 6 Chapters
As a radical and shunned poet, Yeshurun broke the boundaries of language using Hebrew, Yiddish and Arabic in unprecedented ways. The film draws a portrait of a man who broke all conventions, a lonely revolutionary who wrote the events of our time in a crushed-broken language and became the ‘lord of all poets’ toward the end of his life.