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Irish Arts Center Film Series
 SPECIAL PREMIERE ENGAGEMENT
Absolutely Irish!
March 5 – 15
Wednesday – Friday
8:00pm
Saturday
2:00pm and 8:00pm
$12
An all-star concert film and documentary featuring performances by the world’s leading traditional Irish musicians, filmed live at the Irish Arts Center
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Irish Arts Center Film Series
Irish Arts Center
in association with
Temple Israel of the City of New York
The Jewish Center of Teaneck
Irish American Cultural Institute
presents
SHALOM IRELAND
A Documentary Film by Valerie Lapin Ganley
Saturday March 15 and Thursday, March 20
Following our sold out presentation last fall, we are proud to join with Temple Israel of the City of New York, the Jewish Center of Teaneck, and the Irish American Cultural Institute, in presenting two return engagements of Shalom Ireland.
Saturday, March 15th – 8 PM
Reel Judaism Series: "Celtic and Kosher"
The Jewish Center of Teaneck (in association with the Irish American Cultural Institute)
70 Sterling Place, Teaneck, NJ
For more information call (201) 833-0515
Thursday March 20th – 7:30 PM*
An Irish Purim Evening
Temple Israel of the City of New York
112 East 75th Street
* Irish Dinner & Purim hamantashen at 6:30 p.m
RSVP for dinner (212) 249-5000
www.templeisraelnyc.org
This award-winning documentary chronicles the history of Irish Jewry, from IRA gun running during Ireland’s War of Independence, to efforts to help fellow Jews escape the Holocaust, to the election of the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin, Robert Briscoe. Don’t miss this fascinating, little known chapter in Irish history. Click here for the film's website.
More about the film:
From shopping at Erlich's kosher butcher shop on Clanbrassil Street, in the heart of Dublin’s "Little Jerusalem," to worshipping at Adelaide Road, the nation’s oldest synagogue, Ireland’s small, yet devout community of Irish Jews has carried on religious customs for hundreds of years.
During the late nineteenth century Eastern European Jews fled to Ireland to escape the religious persecution of the Tsars. They settled in Dublin, Waterford, Cork, Limerick, Derry and Belfast, and Ireland’s Jewish communities quickly grew as immigrants and their children made tremendous contributions to Irish society. Shalom Ireland tells the story of how Irish Jews participated in both the struggle for freedom in Ireland and the effort to create the state of Israel, looks at how World War II and the Holocaust impacted the Irish people and examines whether anti-Semitism took root in Ireland.
The country's Jewish population reached its peak after World War II, when there were about 5,500 Jewish people living in the country. The poor economic conditions that have long drained Ireland of its most precious resource—her people—have hit the Jewish community particularly hard. Recent efforts by Irish Jews to revitalize their community are bearing fruit: the recent Irish Census revealed that the country’s Jewish population has increased to nearly 1,800. Shalom Ireland documents the efforts of Irish Jews to honor their heritage and preserve their traditions for coming generations
Shalom Ireland was produced, directed and written by San Francisco Bay Area filmmaker Valerie Lapin Ganley, who won two Emmy Awards for her work on “Bay Window,” a show on San Fancisco’s PBS station WQED TV. The film, which is Ms. Lapin Ganley’s feature-length directorial debut, was inspired by her discovery that her great-grandparents were the first Jewish
couple married in Waterford, Ireland.
 Travellers
Documentary Film Screening
February 26th at 7:00 PM
$10 General Sale
In 1999, over 30 years after he took his celebrated photographs of an Irish travelling community or Travellers, Alen MacWeeney makes a journey of discovery into the past to try to meet his subjects again. This fascinating documentary is a journey of discovery for both Alen and his subjects as he shares his photographs and recordings for their delight, and also uses his work as clues to
shape the present.
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