Mamadrama, The Jewish Mother in Cinema
– Monday, June 2 @ 7:00 pm
Jewish mothers are the most easily maligned image of Jewish women found
in movies and television today. You know who they are: the caricature of the
overbearing, emasculating, long suffering mother ever-ready with mountains of
food. Australian director Monique Schwarz takes a penetrating look at how the
loving and affectionate portrayals in early Yiddish and Hollywood silent movies
developed into the Jewish Mother of modern Hollywood and, conversely, the more
flesh and blood characterizations in contemporary Israeli cinema.
