Our Little Histories
In an impoverished village in the White Russia, Raizel Shulman needs to findย a way to save her three young sons from being drafted into the Czarโs army.ย Before splitting them up forever, she pens a poem with three short verses. Aย different fate awaits the descendants of each, as one branch will immigrateย to America, a second will leave for Palestine, and a third will perish in theย Holocaust. Through it all, the poem accompanies them, a silent, mysteriousย token from a place lost in time.
In seven episodes, moving backward through the tumult of the twentiethย and nineteenth centuries, Razielโs descendants make fateful choices as theyย struggle to reconcile their identities, their dreams, and the constraints of theirย time and place. Their stories play out on a reality set in rural Belarus, 1960sย Tel Aviv, a pre-independence kibbutz, 1930s Chicago, pre-war Vilna, turnof-the-century Minsk, and finally, in the tiny shtetl of Prepoisk, not as oneย overriding narrative, but as a collection of small, intimate histories.
Author: Janice Weizman
In an impoverished village in the White Russia, Raizel Shulman needs to findย a way to save her three young sons from being drafted into the Czarโs army.ย Before splitting them up forever, she pens a poem with three short verses. Aย different fate awaits the descendants of each, as one branch will immigrateย to America, a second will leave for Palestine, and a third will perish in theย Holocaust. Through it all, the poem accompanies them, a silent, mysteriousย token from a place lost in time.
In seven episodes, moving backward through the tumult of the twentiethย and nineteenth centuries, Razielโs descendants make fateful choices as theyย struggle to reconcile their identities, their dreams, and the constraints of theirย time and place. Their stories play out on a reality set in rural Belarus, 1960sย Tel Aviv, a pre-independence kibbutz, 1930s Chicago, pre-war Vilna, turnof-the-century Minsk, and finally, in the tiny shtetl of Prepoisk, not as oneย overriding narrative, but as a collection of small, intimate histories.
Author: Janice Weizman
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In an impoverished village in the White Russia, Raizel Shulman needs to findย a way to save her three young sons from being drafted into the Czarโs army.ย Before splitting them up forever, she pens a poem with three short verses. Aย different fate awaits the descendants of each, as one branch will immigrateย to America, a second will leave for Palestine, and a third will perish in theย Holocaust. Through it all, the poem accompanies them, a silent, mysteriousย token from a place lost in time.
In seven episodes, moving backward through the tumult of the twentiethย and nineteenth centuries, Razielโs descendants make fateful choices as theyย struggle to reconcile their identities, their dreams, and the constraints of theirย time and place. Their stories play out on a reality set in rural Belarus, 1960sย Tel Aviv, a pre-independence kibbutz, 1930s Chicago, pre-war Vilna, turnof-the-century Minsk, and finally, in the tiny shtetl of Prepoisk, not as oneย overriding narrative, but as a collection of small, intimate histories.
Author: Janice Weizman
