New York Foundation for Jewish Culture News

The Foundation for Jewish Culture is proud to announce the recipients of its Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film: Imagining Peace, by Lisa Gossels; Off and Running: A Very American Coming of Age Story, by Nicole Opper; Four Seasons Lodge, by Andrew Jacobs; Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh, by Roberta Grossman; Waltz With Bashir, by Ari Folman; and Sons of Sakhin United, by Christopher Browne. Also, the Foundation is excited to announce that three recent recipients of the Kroll Fund — Orthodox Stance, by Jason Hutt; Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women, by Rachel Talbot; and Praying With Lior, by Ilana Trachtman – will be featured at the 27th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. For a copy of the press release, contact: press@jewishculture.org.

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Producer Itzik Kol, dead at age 75

By Nirit Anderman , Haaretz

Film and television producer Itzik Kol, 75, died yesterday morning in Kfar Sava’s Meir Hospital of complications from pneumonia. Kol, one of the most prominent film and television producers in Israel from the 1970s to the 1990s, was involved in making leading films. His funeral will take place at 7 P.M. this evening at the Yarkon Cemetery.

Kol was born in Petah Tikva in 1932. He joined the film industry in 1960, when director Baruch Dienar invited him to work with him on “Hem Hayu Asara” (“They Were Ten”). He switched to theater later, serving for several years as director general of Tel Aviv’s Cameri Theater.

In the late 1960s, Margot Klausner hired Kol to head Herzliya Studios. Klausner dreamed of creating a “Hollywood of the Middle East” in Israel, and Kol was charged with making the dream come true.

Several of the most prominent Israeli films from the 1970s were made under his stewardship of the studio. These included “Hashoter Azulai” (“The Policeman”), directed by Ephraim Kishon and nominated for an Oscar in the best foreign film category; “Metzitzim” (“Peeping Toms”); “Einayim Gedolot” (“Big Eyes”); “Hatzilu Et Hamatzil” (“Save the Lifeguard”), directed by Uri Zohar; and Avi Nesher’s “The Troupe.”

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New Bernard Malamud Anthology

Bernard Malamud
The Complete Stories
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $18.00

This voluminous collection spans the four decades of Malamud’s career, displaying his vast range both in style (the realism of “The Grocery Store,” the absurdism of “The Jewbird”) and in subject matter. The first stories, published in minor magazines in the early 1940s, chronicle life in Brooklyn among Eastern European immigrants; the last fictionalize the lives of famous people. In between are the stories for which Malamud is best known: “The Magic Barrel,” for example, about a rabbinical student who enlists the services of a matchmaker, and “The Silver Crown,” about a teacher seeking help for his dying father.

Perhaps less well-known are the Fidelman-in-Italy stories from the mid-1950s, which serve up a pathetically laughable protagonist: Arthur Fidelman, a would-be scholar and “self-confessed failure as a painter.” In “The Last Mohican,” Fidelman arrives in Rome with a draft of a chapter from his book on the artist Giotto. When an Eastern European refugee who has been following him around disappears—along with the chapter—Fidelman ditches his high-minded labors and spends his stay searching angrily for the beggar.

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