To stay or to leave? A new Ethiopian Jewish film asks a very Israeli question
Cinema has mostly imagined the Jewish past, and the story of the Jewish diaspora in particular, as a white one. Even when filmmakers went to Africa, the Jewish characters on screen were played by whi…
This is a preview of the original article. Source: Haaretz · Avshalom Halutz
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