Please join us on Sunday, May 22nd at 2pm for a very special screening of “Stateless.”
This screening will be followed by Q&A session with director, Michael Drob, as well as members of TE who have lived through the experiences depicted in this documentary.
The event is free and open to the public, but we ask that you register ahead of time – thank you!
About the film:
In the late 1980’s, on the brink of the collapse of the Soviet Union, tens of thousands of Soviet Jews were finally allowed to leave the USSR. What these people did not expect was that their final destination, America, no longer welcomed them with open arms. In 1988, American policy suddenly changed and thousands of Soviet Jews were stranded in Italy.
Stateless.
This documentary captures that unique slice of history from the point of view of the émigrés as well as expert accounts of the situation from influential Jewish leaders including David Harris of the AJC, Mark Handelman of NYANA and Mark Hetfield of HIAS among others.
This project was originally created as part of COJECO BluePrint Fellowship generously funded by the UJA-Federation of New York and Genesis Philanthropy Group
Temple Emanuel is grateful to the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven for their support of this program.
See the trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/