This short documentary chronicles a 90 year old man’s emigration to Israel from his native shtetl in Bessabaria. Yakhnis’ beautifully photographed film poetically captures the end of a rich Jewish heritage in Russia.
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This short documentary chronicles a 90 year old man’s emigration to Israel from his native shtetl in Bessabaria. Yakhnis’ beautifully photographed film poetically captures the end of a rich Jewish heritage in Russia.