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Jan 19, 2006 · Just an Ordinary Jew: Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. With Ben Becker, Siegfried Kernen, Samuel Finzi. Emanuel Goldfarb, a Jewish journalist respond to an invitation by a professor to tell his pupils about his life as a Jew living in Germany.
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- Oliver Hirschbiegel
- 2006-01-19
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What does being a Jew mean nowadays? Emanuel Goldfarb, a Jewish journalist, is asked by the Director of a Jewish community in Germany, to respond to an invitation by a professor to tell his pupils about his life as a Jew living in Germany.
Just an Ordinary Jew, is the Jewish journalist, Emanuel Goldfarb, who is invited to speak at a school about his daily life as a “Jewish fellow citizen”. Thinking that the whole thing is an idiotic idea, as more than enough has already been said on this subject.
Ben Becker’s Goldfarb, arguing with himself into a microcassette recorder, is angry, caustic, wounded and humane — a brilliant portrait of a man who wants, ostensibly, to be nothing more than “just an ordinary Jew” but who cannot escape the extraordinary circumstances of history.
Emanuel Goldfarb, a Jewish journalist respond to an invitation by a professor to tell his pupils about his life as a Jew living in Germany.
Jan 1, 2001 · This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly.
