The chagim are over, and I return to occasional blogging. Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker attended the preview screening of a movie based on the extraordinary story of the Jewish partisans - the Bielski partisans who fought the Nazis from the Belorussian woods. The scale of the valour shown is hard to imagine. Gopnik does well when he explains that the director:
"originally considered starting the film...with a scene
of a customer finding himself in the back seat of a taxi and realizing
that he was being driven by a Bielski, as one might be driven down
Broadway by a Maccabee"
Read the rest of the piece here. The trailer for the movie can be seen here.
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