
'Scandal in Ivansk' uncovers more than historic cemetery
By Linda Cook, Film Critic
Quad City Times
Except for a few bits of foul language, this is a gentle film about a sinister event.
Or perhaps I should more accurately write “series of events.” The titular “Scandal in Ivansk” didn’t unfold overnight. You will see how it happened over the course of time in this thought-provoking documentary by filmmaker David Blumenfeld.
Yitzhak Goldstein remembered how, the day before the Nazis deported the last Jews from the village in 1942, the Jews gathered to bury the Torah scrolls in the Jewish cemetery.
Blumenfeld, from Jerusalem, learned about what happened not only to the Jewish population of Ivansk, but also to the Torah scrolls and the cemetery itself, which was supposed to be restored.
Read the rest of Linda Cook's review HERE!
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