Cynthia Madansky

Treyf

Treyf

Password: PARVE

16mm, 54 min. 1998
Directed by Cynthia Madansky and Alisa Lebow

Distribution Women Make Movies http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c434.shtml

TREYF —"unkosher" in Yiddish— is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a Passover "seder". With personal narration, real and imagined educational films, and haunting imagery, filmmakers Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky examine the Jewish identity of their upbringings and its impact on their lives. Incisive cultural critics, astute, poignant, and poetic—never cynical—they weave their way from New York to Jerusalem in pursuit of a progressive, secular Jewish identity that draws from their childhood reminiscences as much as from their contemporary queer lives.

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