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Film screening: SHTTL

Event Type
Film Screening
Sponsor
The Program in Jewish Culture and Society; Slavic Reference Service; Russian, East European and Eurasian Center; History Department
Location
Main Library Building, Room 66 (1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801)
Date
Oct 16, 2025   5:15 pm  
Cost
Free and open to the public
Contact
Anastasiia Strakhova
E-Mail
as261@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Jewish Studies Calendar

An award-winning film, SHTTL, portrays the lives of people in a small Ukrainian Jewish town (shtetl) at the border of Poland, 24 hours before the Nazi invasion. It is a touching story of a filmmaker who returns from Kyiv to his native shtetl to marry the love of his life and disrupts the balance of the entire town. In one unflinching shot, SHTTL presents a day in the life of a shtetl before it disappears in the aftermath of the Holocaust. The production fully reconstructed a traditional shtetl outside of Kyiv, which is planned to be turned into a museum.

With introductory remarks by Stefan Djordjevic, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, History Department.

Snacks will be provided.

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