Pamela Weisberger
Pamela Weisberger is currently the program chair for the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles, president and research Coordinator for Gesher Galicia, and a co-chair for the 2010 IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Los Angeles. Documenting her family’s history for over 25 years, she has traveled throughout Eastern Europe visiting ancestral towns and villages and conducting research in Polish, Ukrainian and Hungarian archives. A special area of interest has been late 19th to early 20th century city directories, newspapers and court records. She holds a BA in English from Washington University in St. Louis and an MS in Broadcasting from Boston University and lives in Santa Monica, California, where she continues to do professional research of all kinds.
Reel Jews: Filmmakers on the Cutting Edge
Gabriela Bohm,
Ethan Isenberg,
Pazit Varda Lichtman,
Salvador Litvak,
Sharon Rennert,
Suzannah Warlick,
Pamela Weisberger
Arts and Performance,
Global History and Culture
What motivates Jewish filmmakers to write, produce and direct documentaries and fictional films? How do they deal with the illusion of authenticity in filmmaking? How to they manipulate---or avoid manipulating--their audiences? Why are some drawn to document history, while others to fictional subjects? Do they exploit their own life experience for material? Listen, learn and ask your own questions of six of the filmmakers who are presenting their works at LimmudLA.
With Suzannah Warlick, Gabriela Bohm, Sharon Rennert, Ethan Isenberg, Sal Litvak and Pazit Lichtman, all of whom are showing films at LimmudLA, moderated by Pamela Weisberger
FILM: Yippee: A Journey to Jewish Joy
Arts and Performance
Paul Mazursky travels to the Ukrainian village of Uman, where twenty-five thousand Hassidic Jews from around the world come to observe Rosh Hashanah in the town that is the final resting place of the celebrated teacher and spiritual leader Rabbi Nachman (1772-1810). He offers a glimpse of the religious festival and the men who take part in it, as well as sharing stories of Rabbi Nachman's life and teachings, interviewing the non-Jewish residents of Uman as they observe the proceedings, and sharing his own thoughts as a "cultural" Jew.
The Joys of Jewish Genealogy
Identity and Responsibility,
Teen Approved
The Talmud says: "I did not find the world desolate when I entered it. My ancestors planted for me before I was born, so do I plant for those who will come after me." What do you know about your ancestors? What will you pass on to the next generation? How did you come to be the person you are? Tracing your family tree back to the old country and learning about the lives of your ancestors can provide you with surprising answers and enrich your life. Learn some easy ways to get started on the path to creating your family tree from the comfort of your own home by using the Internet as a first step, and discover what it's like to return to one's ancestral shtetl to walk in the footsteps of those who came before us.
