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UCSD Premiere Screening of Film by Isaac Artenstein: "Tijuana Jews"
San Diego, California

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Meet the Director!
Q&A with Director Isaac Artenstein will follow screening.

WHEN: Wednesday, May 3, 2006 at 6:30pm
WHERE: Copley International Conference Center, Institute of the Americas, UCSD Campus
Screening is free and open to the public.

Throughout the early twentieth century thousands of European Jews sailed to Mexico looking for opportunity and escaping increasing persecution at home. A small group made their way north to the border town of Tijuana. TIJUANA JEWS, is a one-hour documentary and a personal exploration of this community that blended Jewish and Mexican cultures and customs in an unlikely place and time. (USA, 2005, Spanish and English with English subtitles, 52 min.)



Movie Pictures: Pic 1 | Pic 2 | Pic 3

"Best Documentary at the San Francisco Latino Film Festival"

Artenstein guides us with fond delight through family memories,
interviews of old timers, terrific photos and clips from the border town
that boomed."- San Diego Union Tribune.

"Charming Memoir"-LA Weekly

Isaac Artenstein is currently Visiting Professor for the Visual Arts Department at UCSD.

Co-sponsored by CILAS, the Hillel Center of UCSD,
the Wesley Foundation, and the UCSD Student
Office of Human Relations

Driving Directions:
http://cilas.ucsd.edu/about/contact_info.php