Letters from Palestine / [directed by] Ludovica Fales.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Fales, Ludovica, director.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Letters.

Palestine.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (37 minutes)

Place of Publication:

London, England : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2011.

Language Note:

In English.

In Hebrew.

In Arabic.

In Italian.

Original language in Hebrew.

Original language in Arabic.

Original language in English.

Original language in Italian.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Imagine discovering an unsolved family mystery in your great-grandfather's letters - a mystery nobody in your family wants to talk about. My great-grandfather, Angelo Levi Bianchini, set out for Palestine on a diplomatic mission in the 1920s and never came back. After spending a few months in Palestine, he had become a vocal advocate for Jewish-Arab coexistence but his views were often unpopular. To his ninety year old daughter Angela, my grandmother, the mystery of his death remains an open wound. This is the story of a journey into the unresolved questions of the Middle Eastern conflict which are still being addressed today, ninety years after my great-grandfather's journey. In a land divided by a wall that in his time would have been unthinkable, today it seems that his dream has been destroyed forever. But in this ongoing state of conflict - the power of his voice still resonates today.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed June 24, 2016).

OCLC:

954043120