Thursday, April 15 at 6:30 pm
SCREENING

Mendel

Director: Alexander Rosler
(Norway, 1997, 35mm, 98 min., English subtitles)

A coming-of-age story told with great humor, warmth and compassion, this is the tale of nine year-old Mendel, who must learn to live in his new country of Norway, while trying to understand the secret past of his parents. In the 1950s, Norway began to receive a small quota of Jewish displaced persons, including Alexander Rosler, who here captures those distant, almost exotic, times.

Introduction and post-screening discussion with Abel Abrahamsen, Chairman Emeritus of the Norwegian Immigration Association and publisher of the exhibition catalogue Jewish Life and Culture in Norway: Wergeland\'s Legacy.

"Back By Popular Demand" is a Thursday night film series, featuring some of the most popular offerings of the New York Jewish Film Festival, a collaboration of The Jewish Museum and The Film Society of Lincoln Center.

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