projection du film de Simon Glass, The Last Tribe, 2011,

en présence du réalisateur et du producteur

 Centre Alexandre Koyré, 27 rue Damesme 75013 Paris

lundi 13 octobre 2014, 17h.-19h.

 Le documentaire de Simon Glass restitue la place des juifs dans l’industrialisation de l’Angleterre au XIXe siècle (Midlands) et leur processus d’intégration à la nation anglaise, interrogeant à nouveaux frais la Britishness.

 Synopsis :

This humorous and intimate account of the Jewish immigrants who arrived in England – thinking that they’d arrived in America – charts their rags to riches story from the ghettos of Eastern Europe to the self-made empires of Marks & Spencer, Burton’s Clothing and countless more.

Combining drama with documentary, a 19th Century Russian Jew searches the City of Leeds for a people that have since moved on. Having moved up the social ladder and out of the city slums, younger generations of Leeds Jews moved away, married out and forgot where they came from.

A tale of cat and mouse between present and past, we are guided by this lone wandering Jew as he retraces the final footsteps of his last, lost tribe.

**The Last Tribe is currently available at BFI Southbank London and National Media Museum, Bradford**

Le film a été primé en 2011 (Leeds International Film Festival) et en 2013 (Toronto Jewish Film Festival). Il est entré à la  Mediathèque du British Film Institute.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/gods-own-county-yorkshire-screen

Invitation avec le soutien du Centre Alexandre Koyré et du Centre d’Etudes Juives (CRH-CEJ) de l’EHESS.