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Apr 26, 2013 · Zev Godinger is the caretaker of the Jewish community of Beregovo, Ukraine. When Zev meets Yale and his partner David Notowitz, he decides to return to his hometown of Vinogradov for the first ...
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A Jewish ice cream vendor in the Carpathian Mountain region of Ukraine returns home to see his birthplace which he has not seen in 50 years.
He isn't joking. This rural, impoverished stretch of Eastern Europe has had several flags planted in its soil this century and has seen the intermingling of many nationalities. Before World War II,...
May 30, 2020 · Telling the story about the relationship between Jews and Gypsies in Carpathian Region after the Holocaust. Also tells the story about the destruction of Jud...
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In a fascinating instance of cultural crossover, the Carpathian Gypsies have preserved traces of Jewish tradition in their own music. On a more personal note, when Godinger triumphantly carries the Torah to his boyhood synagogue, which has been re-opened after fifty years, he's accompanied by Gypsy friends who play a Yiddish tune.
Zev Godinger hasn't seen his homeland since being deported to Auschwitz, in 1944. 50 years later, he is ready to take the pilgrimage back home. He brings with him the Roma music he has learned since being away and a Torah from the US as a gift for his boyhood synagogue.
Aug 12, 1996 · When sometime musician Zev travels a long 50 miles back to the hometown he hasn’t visited since before Nazi incarceration, he’s stunned by how completely its Jewish past has been erased.
