Elie Wiesel — Soul on Fire

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

Told largely through his own words and eloquent voice, Elie Wiesel — Soul on Fire seeks to penetrate to the heart of the known and unknown Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) — his passions, his conflicts and his legacy as one of the most public survivors of the trauma of the Holocaust. With unique access to personal archives, original interviews and employing hand-painted animation, the film illuminates Wiesel’s biography as a survivor, writer, teacher and public figure.

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VIEW THE TRAILER

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ October 31-November 3, watch the film Elie Wiesel — Soul on Fire on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.

⇒ Sunday, November 2 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.

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MEET THE SPEAKERS

Ingrid Anderson, who was a student of Elie Wiesel, is the Associate Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University. She is a scholar of Jewish Studies specializing in modern and contemporary Jewish theology, philosophy, and political thought, and she teaches courses on images of Jewish masculinity and post-Holocaust ethics. She holds a Master’s degree in Jewish Studies and a doctoral degree in Religious Studies from Boston University, in addition to a bachelor’s degree in Literature and Women’s Studies.

Oren Rudavsky, right, is the writer, director and producer of Elie Wiesel — Soul on Fire. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and several National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts grants. His films include Hiding and Seeking, The Ruins of Lifta, Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People and others. His A Life Apart: Hasidism in America was short-listed for the Academy Awards and broadcast on PBS. He was the producer of forty permanent film installations in the Russian Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow that opened in 2013.

Dr. Jud Newborn, left, was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. A dramatic multimedia lecturer, he has spoken throughout North America, at the UN and worldwide. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s prestigious “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre.

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Registration is by donation of any amount ($18 suggested, tax-deductible).