Voices Across the Divide (film)

JVP Boston monthly film screening

We are thrilled to screen a 55-minute “rough-cut” of Alice Rothchild’s new film, Voices Across the Divide.  After the film, we will serve as a focus group for Alice, offering constructive feedback.  (How cool is that?!)

Voices Across the Divide explores my personal experiences, born in Boston in 1948 to first generation parents and growing up with the State of Israel as my friend, my pride, and ultimately my heartbreak. In 1981, my mother, Sylvia Rothchild, wrote a book called Voices from the Holocaust. While deeply immersed in these stories, I gradually began to understand that buried in the wounds of my own people's near annihilation and the subsequent victories of war, another people's story was lost.

Sixty plus years after the war, I feel it is my personal responsibility as my mother's daughter and as a Jewish American who has grappled with the multiple narratives in this region, to listen and document the tragedy that was created by my own people's tragedy. The documentary then focuses on the Palestinian history that occurred as a consequence of the founding of the State of Israel, the 1948 Nakba, and its repercussions. Through interviews with Palestinian survivors and their families, Voices Across the Divide creates a vivid oral history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as seen through the eyes of the Palestinians and the heart of a Jew.

The documentary is co-produced with Sharon Mullally, an Emmy Award winning independent producer-director and editor. For more information, see www.voicesacrossthedivide.com

Space is limited. RSVP for directions to jvpboston@gmail.com.