Israeli Film The Dove Flyer 02/19/2015

The film, based by a novel written by Eli Amir, is told from the point of view of the teenage protagonist, Kobi, about the final years of the Baghdad Jewish Community in the 1950’s. This is the first film made in the distinctive Iraqi-Jewish dialect of Arabic. Speaker: Elisha Russ- Fishbane, Associate Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University