Hebrew Literature,
in the footsteps of the "Hebrews"
"The Hebrews" is a new initiative bringing together a series of documentary, artistic and poetic films on the writers and authors of Hebrew literature. The course offers guided support to help you watch and understand the films, discussions-conferences around the film, the biography of the authors, and more broadly the poetic, ideological, historical and personal dimension of Hebrew literature.
The course allows you to deepen and expand your vocabulary and oral expression in Hebrew.
Israeli authors, literature researchers, musicians, directors will intervene during the various sessions.
Maya Michaeli, Speaker
She finished her doctorate three years ago under the joint direction of Sciences Po and the University of Tel Aviv.
She lived four and a half years in Paris and taught Hebrew in different settings. For the past two years she has been working on the writing and development of academic courses at the Open University where she is a Lecturer.
She is also a translator, (academic writings and literature) and writes literary reviews, essays, prose and articles.
the lesson
"The Hebrews"
“The Hebrews” is a laboratory dedicated to documentary creation addressing the lives of the main poets and writers of Jewish and Hebrew culture. The project initiated by Yair Qedar ten years ago invites renowned directors to create films combining biographical stories, textual works adapted to the big screen, original music, independent animated films. So far 14 films have been created by 10 directors, 15 cameramen, 22 graphic designers and designers, 26 musicians and other artists. 12 of them were awarded and broadcast in front of hundreds of thousands of people.
Direction, production and screenplay: Yaïr Qedar
In May 2011 we celebrated the centenary of Léah Goldberg. She was a poet, researcher, children's writer, playwright, genius translator and left behind more than a hundred books. The film is a documentary salute to the most admired poetess in Israel. It tells the story of her life and her work through five houses, photos, poems and texts set to music, archives and interviews with her friends and an original video art based on typography, so many keys that introduce you to the intimate universe and the chaotic life story of the woman who chose Hebrew, the language that distinguished her.
With the support of:
The Second Authority for Television
The new foundation for cinema and television - NFC
The Department of Israeli Films / Israeli Film Service
The Avihai Foundation
Direction, production and screenplay: Yair Qedar
Bialik is the reference, at the same time the one who is quoted, the one who is opaque, misunderstood poet of Israeli culture. Already at the age of 30 he received the title of national poet, and since then it has been used for different purposes, nationalist or Zionist. “The King of the Jews” is an attempt to find the heart that beats and beats, the heart that growls, the one that animated Bialik's life. Through a unique animated film, the voice of Haïm Topol, forgotten images or unpublished archive images, poems by Bialik sung by Ninet Tayeb, specialists and lovers of Bialik from all over the world, all try to tell the story of the child of the Town Hall who was the King of the Jews in a different way.
With the support of:
The new foundation for cinema and television - NFC
The Department of Israeli Films / Israeli Film Service
Channel 8
The Avihai Foundation
The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (MFJC)
The Raven, Zeev Vladimir Jabotinsky
(Course 3)
Director and screenplay: Ayelet Ephraim
Producer: Yair Qedar
Seventy-five years ago, he died suddenly, alone and far from any place of influence, in a scout camp. At New York. At his peak he speaks and writes in eight languages, and is considered a promise of literature, a genius translator who changed the Hebrew language, an adored and hated leader, capable of leading the Jewish people. “The Raven” is the first documentary film of its kind, telling the story of one of the most intriguing characters in Jewish history - Zeev Jabotinsky.
With the support of:
Channel 1
The Avihai Foundation
The Gesher Foundation
The Department of Israeli Films / Israeli Film Service
Fogel lost Fogel
(Course 4)
Director and screenplay, Ayelet Ephraim
Producer: Yair Qedar
He is considered one of the greatest writers in Hebrew literature, although he was not a Zionist and lived in Israel for only a year. Who was David Fogel? The man who left behind a formidable corpus of novels, short stories and poems in Hebrew. He talks about sexuality and sensuality, about swapping roles and identities like no one else before him. Thanks to her diary, her letters and her writings, director Ayelet Ephraim embarks on a journey to Europe and Palestine-Israel, in search of this sad author who has done wonders in Hebrew, while finding himself in the wrong place each time. , at the wrong time until it cost him his life. He won his recognition only after his death.
With the support of:
The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation KAN
The Makor Foundation - Keren Makor
The Avihai Foundation
The Gesher Foundation
The Department of Israeli Films / Israeli Film Service
Moetzet Ha Kolnoa - Council for Cinema
The Ministry of Culture
The Jerusalem Film and Television Fund
Widow Blaustein, Rachel
(Course 5) | Trailer +
Director and screenplay: Sivan Arbel
Producer: Yair Qedar
New documentary film celebrating Rachel's 125th birthday highlights her role as the first Hebrew poet who managed to express the soul of an entire generation in a language that lives and breathes to this day. today. To accompany the video revealing unknown letters from Rachel, Dana Olmert, Anat Weizman, Efrat Mishori, Moki Tsur, Uri Milshtein, Yehudit Ravitz, Karni Postal and others speak and sing, together they redesign this extraordinary character.
Produced with support from the Rabinovich Foundation
The Department of Israeli Films / Israeli Film Service
LEVADITI - the legend of Miriam Yellin Shteklis
(Course 6)
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Art direction, writing, editing, film and direction: Reuven Brodsky
Producer: Yair Qedar
In her small apartment in Jerusalem, surrounded by dolls and cats, Miriam Yellin Shteklis wrote poems/songs for children that won the hearts of entire generations, “The Zahava doll”, “The soap cried a lot”, “Michael” and others.
Director Reuven Brodsky filmed, edited, created and staged a Russian legend which tells, using miniatures made especially for the film and interviews with those close to the writer, the story of one of the most great poetesses for children of Israel, first Israeli Nobel Prize for children's literature.
With the support of:
The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation KAN
The new foundation for cinema and television - NFC
The Avihai Foundation
The Gesher Foundation
The Department of Israeli Films / Israeli Film Service
Moetzet Ha Kolnoa - Council for Cinema
The Ministry of Culture
Love song - SHIR YEDIDOT, Rabbi David Bouzaglo (Course 7)
Director and screenplay: Raphaël Balulu
Producer: Yair Qedar
Rabbi David Bouzaglo is one of the greatest specialists in pioutim/liturgical chants of the twentieth century. He was born in Morocco in 1903 and culturally influenced hundreds of thousands of members of the Jewish community. Between a wealthy diaspora and a torn state of Israel, he changed the outlook on Sephardic liturgical chants and formed a common thread between modernity and tradition that began in the golden era of Spanish Judaism.
With the support of:
The new foundation for cinema and television - NFC
The Avihai Foundation
The Department of Israeli Films / Israeli Film Service
Moetzet Ha Kolnoa - Council for Cinema
The Ministry of Culture
Official competition DocAviv 2015
Awarded at the "Poretz Gvulot" Festival and Cinema Darom
Levantine, Jacqueline Kahanoff (Course 7)
Director and screenplay, Raphaël Balulu
Producer: Yair Qedar
She lived in Cairo, Paris, New York but was buried in the cemetery of Givataim. Of a subjugating beauty, she was adored but few people knew her during her lifetime, and certainly even less after her death. With a unique and incomparable pen, she was the first to write on Levantine and Oriental identity.
With the support of:
The new foundation for cinema and television - NFC
The Avihai Foundation
The Gesher Foundation
The Department of Israeli Films / Israeli Film Service
Moetzet Ha Kolnoa - Council for Cinema
The Ministry of Culture
The Amid Foundation
Black honey, Avrom Sutzkever | Trailer +
(Course 8)
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Screenplay and direction: Uri Barbash
Producer: Yair Qedar
As long as Avrom Sutzkever lived he did not allow a film to be made about him. Today eight years after his death, “black honey” tells the untold story of one of the greatest Yiddish poets of our time.
With the support of:
The Makor Foundation - Keren Makor
The Department of Israeli Films / Israeli Film Service
The Avihai Foundation
The Gesher Foundation
The Ministry of Culture and Sport
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
Beit Sholem Aleichem
Yeshurun: Six Pirkei Avot
(Course 9)
Research, screenplay and production: Amihai Hassoun
Producer: Yair Qedar
For many, he was Israel's greatest poet, yet for most of his life he was shunned and excommunicated, seen as a radical and isolated poet who did violence to Hebrew, Yiddish and Arabic culture and language.
With the support of:
The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation KAN
The Department of Israeli Films / Israeli Film Service
The Avihai Foundation
The Gesher Foundation
The Amid Foundation - Keren Amid
The 7 tapes of Yona Wallach
(Course 10)
Direction, production and screenplay: Yair Qedar
The cinematic journey into the universe of Yona Wallach, legendary and avant-garde poet, who died young and left behind a myth for many admirers.
With the support of:
Channel 8
The Department of Israeli Films / Israeli Film Service
The Rabinovich Foundation
The Avihai Foundation
Registration
6 weekly sessions of 1h30
Sunday from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
First course: 07.06
Price for 10 sessions: €240 + €80 ( registration fee + free access to the 14 films of the series “The Hebrews” with English subtitles) for one year.
The course will open with a minimum of 6 students. It is limited to 10 participants.
Payment is to be paid in advance via our site, a refund is possible up to 24 hours after the first session (registration fees are not refunded).
It is possible to pay in 2 instalments.
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