March 2023
Film Screening: “My Name is Andrea”
Join UMaine Judaic Studies, and Maine Jewish Film Festival for a screening of "My Name is Andrea" followed by a panel discussion with Tamar Perfit Mathieu ( Rape Response Services & Penquis) and Amanda Cost (Partners for Peace), moderated by Derek A. Michaud (UMaine Judaic Studies). "The story of controversial feminist writer and public intellectual Andrea Dworkin, who offered a revolutionary analysis of male supremacy with iconoclastic flair. Decades before #MeToo, Dworkin called out the pervasiveness of sexism and rape…
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Film Screening: “Four Winters”
FOUR WINTERS: A Story of Jewish Resistance during World War II A film by Julia Mintz "A stunning, heartfelt narrative of heroism and resilience" (Lincoln Center, NYJFF). In this moving documentary, the last surviving Jewish partisans tell the little-known story of their four years in the forests of Ukraine and Poland, who organized to sabotage Nazis and their collaborators. Screening to be followed by a discussion with Anne Knowles (History) and Derek A. Michaud (Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Judaic Studies)…
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