THE WHITECHAPEL GALLERY
THE ANARCHIST RABBI - ADAM KOSSOFF
London'’s Anarchist Image
Thursday 11 September, 7pm - 9pm
Booking essential.
£8.50/£6.50 concession (£4.25 Whitechapel Gallery Members)
Two film essays explore the capital'’s overlooked histories, politics, movements and sites.
Adam Kossoff’'s ‘The Anarchist Rabbi’ tracks the ghost of Jewish
radical Rudolf Rocker (voiced by Steven Berkoff)
Suzy Gillett'’s ‘Epiphany’
remembers English civil war anarcho-mystics through contemporary re-enactment.
Followed by director Q&A.
An essayistic film about Rudolf Rocker and the forgotten history of Yiddish East End anarchism at the turn of the last century, The Anarchist Rabbi explores the politics of urban space and how urban development destroys collective memory.
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/product/category_id/46/product_id/1981
An essayistic film about Rudolf Rocker and the forgotten history of Yiddish East End anarchism at the turn of the last century, The Anarchist Rabbi explores the politics of urban space and how urban development destroys collective memory.
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/product/category_id/46/product_id/1981
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