White Mountain Jewish Film Festival Presents THE HISTORY OF LOVE

THE HISTORY OF LOVE, an artfully constructed love story, based on American author Nicole Krauss’ bestseller The History of Love, is the story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother’s loneliness. This multilayered story is a sprawling saga of ardor and twists of fate that span decades and continents from a shtetl in pre-war Poland to modern-day New York. Director Radu Mihaileanu and a brilliant cast that includes Gemma Arterton and veteran actors Derek Jacobi and Elliot Gould, deftly weave the many threads of Krauss’ novel into a soaring epic that touches on love, literature, and challenges of being Jewish. “This is a fantastic movie, full of symbols. It conveys the most diverse emotions from sympathy to admiration, from sadness to enthusiasm.” Alter-ego, June 2017 Guest Speaker Carole Renard is the Wexler Oral History Project’s NEH Oral History Project Coordinator at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA. In addition to interviewing community members and scholars about Jewish history and culture, she transcribes and indexes the extensive collection of interviews to make them more accessible to the public. Renard holds a BA in Anthropology and Jewish Studies from Smith College, and an MA in Jewish Studies from University College, London, where she wrote her thesis on the Jewish involvement in the British suffrage movement.