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REVIEWS
"Kaddish is more than the story of a Jew confronting an atrocity committed before he was born;
it’s about coping with an overpowering parental legacy. And it’s about the passing of events from
generation to generation — how the lessons of history are actually learned.... Again and again this
profile mushrooms, encompassing other survivors, other children, other parents. There isn’t a moment
that doesn’t resonate.... I felt I was seeing something vital, something biographies provide
and movies almost never do."
— David Edelstein, Village Voice
"An intellectual and psychological suspense story … with the patience and detail of a good novel ...
the experience is dizzying, a little scary, but finally exhilarating … there is marvelous pleasure to be
had in following the journey to its conclusion ... one of the most moving things
I have seen in recent films.”
— David Denby, New York Magazine
“Nothing less than a spiritual odyssey ... brings universality to the very specific challenge
of growing up as the child of a Holocaust survivor ... makes personal the very serious and timeless
issues it illuminates so beautifully.... Yossi must ask himself if life is only preparation for another Holocaust
and if his religion is only a dead ritual.”
— Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
“Haunting … a commentary on the reverberations of the past”
— Joe Baltake, Philadelphia Daily News
“Full of the unexpected: a sense of humor and joie de vivre, a sense not so much
of bitterness and despair as of strength and love.”
— Los Angeles Weekly
“Evocative, charming, sometimes painfully tender and sometimes even delightfully funny ...
should be seen by every Jew… and every gentile”
— David Brudnoy, Brookline Tab
“A landmark film in both style and content … rich in ideas and intellectual force,
imbued with anger, grief and compassion. Kaddish is a film that every American Jew
– committed and assimilated, religious and secular – ought to see”
— Walter Ruby, Jewish World
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