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Sunday,
March 19, 4:00 PM
Northwest
Premiere
USA,
1999, 57 min.
Marlene
Booth, Director
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Yidl
in the Middle
Herring
and chopped liver lunches were enough to embarrass filmmaker Marlene Booth
as a schoolgirl growing up Jewish in Iowa.
Living in Cambridge, Mass. with her family today, Booth grew so
weary of neighbor’s hoots and hollers when she told them she was a Jew
from Des Moines, she decided to make a film about it.
Weaving home movies, old photographs and interviews with friends
and family, Yidl in the Middle
is an honest, personal look at two rich and distinctly opposed
cultures. Booth’s mother
was the Jewish force in her life while her father – a high school track
star and local fireman – was Iowan to the core. It’s a funny, warm
film that both celebrates and raises questions about Jewish identity that
can’t be resolved easily.
Special
Introduction by Raphael Soifer, filmmaker’s son
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