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From: Cleveland Jewish News
Date: 20000915
Author:Heller, Fran

Heller, Fran
Cleveland Jewish News
09-15-2000
Jerusalem documentary blends family biography with history

In 1850, the French writer Gustave Flaubert [described a desolate Jerusalem
as a place where] "God's curse seems to float above the city."

"No country has been destroyed over and over again in wars more than this
one and no country has seen more rulers come and go," wrote another visitor
about the long-contested capital.

Both impressions are taken from "Fragments*Jerusalem," created and narrated
by Israeli documentary filmmaker Ron Havilio.

The six-hour documentary, shown in two parts at the ...

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