CREEDS OF OUR TIMES

WEDNESDAY 9

 

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

The Long Search - IV

A film presented by Ronald Eyre 

 

Judaism: The Chosen People (51 min; dvd; English)

What is it that makes a Jew? In New York, Elie Wiesel, author and survivor of the concentration camps, tries to define it, In London, Nobert Brainin and the Amadeus Quartet carry the argument further, both in words and music. Inevitability the search takes us to Jerusalem, where Dr. Pinches Peli, tenth generation rabbi and fourth generation Jerusalem, explains the meaning of prayer and acts as our guide through the religious schools, the synagogues and a museum for the survivors of the Holocaust

 

Religion In Indonesia: The Way Of The Ancestors (51 min; dvd; English)

There are almost 200 million people scattered across the world who belong to tribal religions that are local, exclusive and frequency animist – i.e., they believe that inanimate objects and natural phenomena process a soul. Through no single group can be chosen as typical, this episode is devoted to primal religions-that of the Torajas who live in a mountain fortress on an Indonesia island