Between the Stone and the Flower:
The Duality of the Conversos

Sunday, May 19 at 2 pm
Intro and Q&A with Filmmaker Genie Milgrom
FREE Admission, reservations encouraged

The journey of Genie Milgrom and her decades long quest for her Jewish lineage inspired the film. She was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Miami as a full Catholic. She was always burdened with a deep-rooted feeling of not belonging in her Spanish Catholic environment. Genie becomes more and more convinced that her family was Jewish in the Iberian Peninsula centuries before. Her story follows many twists and turns as she makes the difficult decision to convert to Judaism. Her chase for the “breadcrumbs” that were dropped by her ancestors led her to Medieval Archives and several countries in Europe to untangle the web of secrecy that her ancestors had created to protect themselves during very dark times in Europe. Together with her husband Michael, an Ashkenaz of Romanian origins, she finally reaches the truth of her family in an engaging film that is not to be missed!

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