Hiding and Seeking
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Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust is 2004 documentary film
about Menachem Daum
, an Orthodox Jew and son of German Nazi Holocaust survivors who has spent his life interviewing survivors about the impact of the Holocaust
on their lives. After hearing a disturbing tape of a rabbi openly preaching "hatred" of non-Jews, Daum attempts to raise an outcry in his Brooklyn Orthodox community. When ignored by the media and community leaders, Daum decides to fly to Israel to discuss the matter with his two sons, concerned with the "ethical legacy" he is responsible for leaving them.
Hiding and Seeking was produced, written, and directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky
and aired on PBS
's Point of View
series in 2005. It has been met with high critical praise, receiving a 90% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes
.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
about Menachem Daum
Menachem Daum
Menachem Daum is an Orthodox Jews and a documentary film-maker. Born in displaced persons camp in Germany, to refugees from Poland who had survied the Holocaust. Being Jewish, many of his relatives perished in Nazi Germany's genocide...
, an Orthodox Jew and son of German Nazi Holocaust survivors who has spent his life interviewing survivors about the impact of the Holocaust
The Holocaust
The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
on their lives. After hearing a disturbing tape of a rabbi openly preaching "hatred" of non-Jews, Daum attempts to raise an outcry in his Brooklyn Orthodox community. When ignored by the media and community leaders, Daum decides to fly to Israel to discuss the matter with his two sons, concerned with the "ethical legacy" he is responsible for leaving them.
Hiding and Seeking was produced, written, and directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky
Oren Rudavsky
Oren Rudavsky is an award-winning documentary filmmaker specializing in work on religion outside the mainstream. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1979.- As director :* At the Crossroads: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today...
and aired on PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
's Point of View
P.O.V.
POV is a Public Broadcasting Service Public television series which features independent nonfiction films. POV is a cinema term for "point of view"....
series in 2005. It has been met with high critical praise, receiving a 90% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes
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.
External links
- Hiding and Seeking on IMDb
- Hiding and Seeking on Rotten Tomatoes
- P.O.V. Hiding and Seeking - PBS's site dedicated to the film