Wake Up, Grandson - Letters to my Rebellious Rabbi (2024)

0.0/10 90 min Documentary

Overview

The late Renen Schorr (Late Summer Blues) turns his camera on the 25-year exchange of letters between himself and his grandfather Rabbi Avraham Heller, hero of the 1948 Battle of Safed. Their correspondence reveals a generational and ideological rift, articulating the contradictions of Schorr’s generation of Israelis.

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