Divan / Palinka Pictures pesents ; a documentary by Pearl Gluck ; directed and produced by Pearl Gluck ; co-written by Pearl Gluck and Susan Korda.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Gluck, Pearl, director, producer, screenwriter.

Alexander Street Press.

Palinka Pictures, production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers and daughters--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Fathers and daughters.

Hasidim--New York (State)--New York.

Hasidim.

Jewish families--New York (State)--New York.

Jewish families.

Jewish women--Family relationships--New York (State)--New York.

Jewish women.

Orthodox Judaism--Relations--Nontraditional Jews.

Orthodox Judaism.

Relations.

Nontraditional Jews.

Families.

Hungary--Description and travel.

Hungary.

New York (State).

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (76 minutes)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Zeitgeist, 2004.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

As a teenager, filmmaker Pearl Gluck left her Orthodox Jewish clan in Brooklyn for secular life in Manhattan. Many years later, Pearl's father has one wish: that she marry and return to the community. Pearl, however, takes a more creative approach to mend the breach. She travels to Hungary to retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heirloom: a couch upon which esteemed rabbis once slept. En route for the ancestral divan, Pearl encounters a colorful cast of characters who provide guidance and inspiration, including a couch exporter, her ex-Communist cousin in Budapest, a pair of Hungarian-American matchmakers and a renegade group of formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews. Nimbly clever and intensely illuminating, DIVAN is a visual parable that offers the possibility of personal reinvention and cultural re-upholstery.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed March 23, 2016).

OCLC:

950614117

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.