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The ingredients:
One) Jewish interviewer with a Sony cassette recorder and a passion for hearing the stories people tell about their lives, four hundred and twenty Jews
Two) questions:
For two years, writer, film director, and psychiatric discourse analyst Michael Garbutt traveled across North America, Europe, and Australia recording conversations with a cross-section of Jews who describe themselves (among other things) as philosophers, accountants, management consultants, unemployed bums, kosher butchers, vegetarians, Torah scholars, homemakers, rabbis, doctors, students, klezmer musicians, school kids, retirees, grandmothers, gays, lesbians, Ashkenazis, Sephardis, Mizrachis, Israelis, Zionists, anti-Zionists, right-wing, left-wing, centrist, liberal, reactionary, Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, unaffiliated, still-looking, atheists, Buddhists
In talking of their feelings about Judaism and Jewishness, they variously characterize themselves as proud, joyful, happy, optimistic, inspired, ethically guided, spiritually nourishedand also angry, sad, hurt, depressed, pessimistic, cynical, guilty, anxious, neutraland just plain confused.
Moving, amusing, at times inspiring or outright provocative, the voices in Hear My Story provide an unusually intimate and candid insight into the remarkable diversity of the contemporary Jewish world.