By Erin Trahan | May 10, 2024

A mother-daughter duo is working to preserve the largest collection of Yiddish and Jewish-related films in the world. You can see a some of them at the Coolidge Corner Theater this weekend as part of their 10-day film festival.

The National Center for Jewish Film in Waltham can be tricky to find. But inside the nondescript concrete building, tucked along the northern edge of Brandeis University’s campus, floor-to-ceiling shelves hold part of the largest collection of Yiddish language and Jewish-related films in the world….

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By Dianna Bell | May 16, 2024

‘Stella. A Life.‘ and ‘Revenge‘ – Sunday, May 19

Screening as part of the National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival, “Stella. A Life.” is a fictional story inspired by the real life of Gestapo informant and jazz singer Stella Goldschlag. From September of 1943 through the end of World War II, Goldschalg sent hundreds of fellow Jews to the Nazis. Brandeis University professor Laura Jockusch is working on a book about this complicated woman and will be hosting a Q&A following the 11 a.m. screening at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Also showing Sunday is the documentary “Revenge: Our Dad the Nazi Killer” at 2:30 p.m. The film follows three brothers who hire a private detective to investigate their father, a Holocaust survivor who was rumored to be involved in revenge killings of Nazis. Jockusch will also lead a Q&A following this screening at the Coolidge. WBUR film critic Erin Trahan spoke with the mother-daughter duo behind the film center and festival. Read that piece here.