SHTTL

March 20, 2025

5:45PM - 8:00PM

Knowlton 250 / main campus

2025-03-20 17:45:00 2025-03-20 20:00:00 SHTTL - Film Screening SHTTLDirected by Ady WalterUkraine, 2023A filmmaker returns from Kyiv to his rural village to marry the love of his life. He is expected to marry the Rabbi’s daughter, which disrupts the balance of the whole town. In one unflinching shot, this film presents a day in the life of a Jewish village before it disappears. SHTTL is the story of the inhabitants of a Yiddish Ukrainian village at the border of Poland, 24 hours before the Nazi invasion, known as Operation Barbarossa. Today, there are no such villages in existence; the production fully reconstructed a traditional ‘Shtetl’ outside of Kyiv, which is planned to be turned into a museum. Sponsored by Germanic Languages and Literatures, Melton Center for Jewish Studies, Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures Knowlton 250 / main campus America/New_York public

Directed by Ady Walter

Ukraine, 2023

A filmmaker returns from Kyiv to his rural village to marry the love of his life. He is expected to marry the Rabbi’s daughter, which disrupts the balance of the whole town. In one unflinching shot, this film presents a day in the life of a Jewish village before it disappears.

SHTTL is the story of the inhabitants of a Yiddish Ukrainian village at the border of Poland, 24 hours before the Nazi invasion, known as Operation Barbarossa. Today, there are no such villages in existence; the production fully reconstructed a traditional ‘Shtetl’ outside of Kyiv, which is planned to be turned into a museum.

Sponsored by Germanic Languages and Literatures, Melton Center for Jewish Studies, Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures