Dear Community and Congregation leaders and Educators,
Children of the Inquisition: Their Stories Can Now Be Told, a critically acclaimed award winning feature documentary is now available for educational and community screenings. The film reveals the secrets of families forced to convert or flee during the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions and how their ensuing diaspora, literally, changed the world. Their stories are compellingly personalized by an ethnically diverse, international cast of their present day descendants. The leading experts on this little known history provide dramatic context.These tales of hidden identity, intolerance and forced migration are not only eye-opening and historically revelatory, but urgently relevant to our contemporary lives.
“brilliantly stresses the diversity of Judaism in terms of both faith and heritage that has transpired because of the diaspora.”
“reveals to us an important but little-understood history; a must-watch for any serious student of history.”
“By showing the diverse paths reflected in the Sephardic diaspora and the many ways these
individuals relate to their faith today....audiences will come away with a new sense of judaism”
“An eye-opening story spanning half the globe; sensitive to every point of view.”
“Hebrew College was thrilled to be able to share Children of the Inquisition with the community. We engaged a diverse group of panelists to be able to engage the viewers in a rich conversation about the material the film wrestled with and the reviews of the film and the enriching experience were glowing. People came together across various backgrounds, geographic locations throughout the area, and ages to learn more and to explore.”
Events & Availability
The film can be seen on PBS presently, but to enrich the learning experience for your communities, A Closer Look is making Children of the Inquisition available for digital and in-person screenings and in your organization's library. We can help you organize exciting discussion panels that can be followed by panels on prejudice, intolerance, intergenerational trauma, identity, discrimination, the roots of anti-semitism, and forced migration. Director Joseph Lovett, producer Hilary Klotz Steinman are available for panels as are many historians and characters from the film. Through these events, your community can understand the relevance of 15th century conversions and banishments to modern day issues of 21st century Christians, Jews and Muslims.
We suggest you consider partnering with other organizations to have that much more of a diversity of points of view.
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To help further the outreach of Children of the Inquisition and interfaith conversation, we suggest a $1000 donation to A Closer Look, the non-profit producer and distributor of the film.
Any honoraria requested would be worked out between your organization and the individual speakers.
