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Moscow Jewish Film Festival
The Moscow Jewish Film Festival is an annual international film festival, which aims to gather in the program features, documentaries, shorts and animated films on the subject of Jewish culture, history and national identity and contemporary problems. In 2015, Moscow joined a list of cities that celebrate this festival. History 2015 The first Moscow Jewish Film Festival was held from June 14 to 17, 2015, at Moscow's Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, a Documentary film center and cinema GUM. The festival was organized by Vanya Bowden, Rusina Lekuh, and Egor Odintsov. Sponsored by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Jewish Agency for Israel, UJA-Federation of New York, Roskino, and Ark Pictures. The jury was chaired by writer-director Konstantin Fam, and the other members were Rabbi Alexander Boroda, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia; Catherine Mtsituridze, television presenter, film critic and he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million residents within the city limits, over 17 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in the metropolitan area. The city covers an area of , while the urban area covers , and the metropolitan area covers over . Moscow is among the world's largest cities; being the most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest urban and metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent. First documented in 1147, Moscow grew to become a prosperous and powerful city that served as the capital of the Grand Duchy that bears its name. When the Grand Duchy of Moscow evolved into the Tsardom of Russia, Moscow remained the political and economic center for most of the Tsardom's history. Whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Eidinger
Lars Eidinger (; born 21 January 1976) is a German actor. Eidinger started his career at Deutsches Theater in 1997. Before his breakthrough, he played minor roles in German television shows like ''Schloss Einstein'' (2002) and '' Berlin, Berlin'' (2003). In February 2016, he was nominated as one of the judges for the main competition section of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. He is a member of the ensemble of the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin, with leading roles in Thomas Ostermeier productions such as Hamlet and Richard III. Eidinger was one of the first signers of the Open Letter to the German Position on Russo-Ukrainian War on late April 2022, demanded that Germany not support Ukraine with arms in order to "prevent a third world war". Eidinger lives in Berlin, is married and has a daughter. He has appeared in German and international film and television productions. Selected filmography Film * 2005: '' See You at Regis Debray'' * 2009: '' Everyone Else ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Lyudmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya (russian: link=no, Людмила Евгеньевна Улицкая, born February 21, 1943) is an internationally acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short-story writer who, in 2014, was awarded the prestigious Austrian State Prize for European Literature for her oeuvre. In 2006 she published ''Daniel Stein, Interpreter'' ''(Даниэль Штайн, переводчик''), a novel dealing with the Holocaust and the need for reconciliation between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Ulitskaya herself belongs to a group of people formed by the realities of the former Soviet Union, who see themselves racially and culturally as Jews, while having adopted Christianity as their religion. Sasha Senderovich, ''Translations'' book review in ''Tablet Magazine'', 29 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linor Goralik
Linor Goralik (russian: link=no, Лино́р Гора́лик, born Yuliya Borisovna Goralik, russian: link=no, Юлия Борисовна Горалик on 9 July 1975, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian-speaking author, poet, artist and essayist. Biography She was born on 9 July 1975 in a Jewish family in Dnipropetrovsk, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (now Dnipro in Ukraine).L. Goralik's personal profile in From 1982 to 1986 she studied at school #67, and from 1987 to 1989 at school #23.Профиль Линор Горали ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorit Golender
Dorit Golender is the Vice President of Community Relations for the Genesis Philanthropy Group. She took the position after serving for five years as the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Russian Federation (2010-2015). She also was a broadcast journalist known as Shlomit Lidor to Russian listeners. Golender is from Vilnius, Lithuania and emigrated to Israel with her family in 1967. Career Journalism While a student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (studying English and Sovietology), Golender began working as an announcer in the Russian Division of the Voice of Israel Voice of Israel was a Jerusalem-based private global broadcast network staffed by media professionals with a Zionist and often religious orientation, who saw their mission in pro-Israel advocacy (''hasbara'') and combating the global pro-Palesti .... She was Director and Chief Editor of Radio REKA for almost 15 years, starting in 1991. References Ambassadors of Israel to Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Jewish Congress
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) was founded in Geneva, Switzerland in August 1936 as an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations. According to its mission statement, the World Jewish Congress' main purpose is to act as "the diplomatic arm of the Jewish people." Membership in the WJC is open to all representative Jewish groups or communities, irrespective of the social, political or economic ideology of the community's host country. The World Jewish Congress headquarters are in New York City, and the organization maintains international offices in Brussels, Belgium; Jerusalem; Paris, France; Moscow, Russia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Geneva, Switzerland. The WJC has special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. History The World Jewish Congress was established in Geneva, Switzerland in August, 1936, in reaction to the rise of Nazism and the growing wave of European anti-Semitism. Since its foundation, it has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Jewish Congress
The Russian Jewish Congress is a non-profit charitable fund and Russian Jewish organization. It was established in 1996 by a group of Jewish businessmen, workers and religious figures with the goal of reviving Jewish life in Russia. It unites some of the influential and prosperous Jews in Russia, high-standing state officers, businessmen and actors of science and culture. The RJC supports existing communities and fosters the creation of new communities. At the same time helps them to strengthen and to find their own sources of funding and stipulates terms for independently allocating funds for the local communities’ needs. Leaders Its administrating bodies are the Presidium, Council of Directors and Public Council. Heads of the Congress include Vladimir Resin, Mikhail Fridman, Yevgenia Albats, Vitaly Ginzburg, Yuliy Gusman, Andrey Kozyrev, Berel Lazar, Henri Reznik, Vladimir Solovyov, Gennady Khazanov, Matvey Ganapolsky, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, David Iakobachvili and others (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Kott
Alexander Konstantinovich Kott (russian: Александр Константинович Котт; born 22 February 1973) is a Russian director and screenwriter. Selected filmography Director * (2006) 8-episode TV series adapted from the eponymous novel by Mikhail Lermontov * '' Fortress of War'' (2010) * '' Yolki 2'' (2011) * ''Yolki 3'' (2013) * ''Yolki 1914'' (2014) * '' Test'' (2014) * ''Insight'' (2015) * ''Yolki 5 ''Yolki 5'' (russian: Ёлки 5, meaning ''Christmas Trees 5'' or ''Those Christmas Trees''), is a 2016 Russian comedy film, sequel to ''Yolki 1914''. The roles are played by Ivan Urgant, Sergey Svetlakov, Kirill Pletnev, Katerina Shpitsa, Anna ...'' (2016) * '' Yolki 6'' (2017) * '' Trotsky'' (2017) TV series * '' Spitak'' (2018) References External links * Living people 1973 births Mass media people from Moscow Russian Jews Russian film directors {{Russia-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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