Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

October 31, 2016

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Allen Grossman, Program Coordinator

Jewish Film Expert to Speak in Tallahassee

Dr. Eric Goldman is one of the world’s foremost scholars of Jewish, Yiddish and Israeli cinema. He is adjunct professor of cinema at Yeshiva University and film critic for New Jersey’s The Jewish Standard. He holds a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University and graduate degrees in Contemporary Jewish Studies and Theatre Arts from Brandeis University. Dr. Goldman has written extensively on the Jewish experience in film. In the summer of 2014, he was a fellow at Brandeis University’s Schusterman Institute for Israel Studies. Dr. Goldman has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar Specialist and was a fellow at The Max Weinreich Center for Eastern European Jewish Studies at Columbia University; The American Film Institute in Los Angeles; and The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has produced and directed for radio, television and film and has developed and authored over a dozen DVDs.

This December, Dr. Goldman will be traveling to Tallahassee, FL to give a lecture entitled, The American Jewish Story Through Cinema. Through film clips and discussion, we will learn how filmmakers created and packaged their own unique concept of the Jew- as filtered through their own consciousness. The program is on Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 8:00 pm. It will be held at The Florida State University’s Hillel: 834 W. St. Augustine St. Tallahassee, FL 32304. There is no cost for admission.

Dr. Eric Goldman’s Tallahassee visit is sponsored by The Tallahassee Jewish Federation with the generous assistance of The Dorothy and Jonathan Rintels Charitable Trust and coordinated through the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL). 

To learn more about this event, visit www.jewishtallahassee.org.