Assi dayan
A portrait of Israel’s first family — and Israel, itself
“Dayan: The First Family” illustrates the generational divides and ideological differences that carried the Jewish state from its prehistory to today.
Israeli Director Assi Dayan Dies at 68
Celebrated Israeli actor and director Assi Dayan, whose father Moshe Dayan became internationally known as Israel’s eye patch-wearing defence minister during two Middle East wars, died on Thursday at the age of 68, his family announced.
Pushing Ben-Gurion off the Roof
In his latest tour de force, Assi Dayan, Israeli cinema’s enfant terrible, seeks to push Israel’s Ashkenazi elite into its grave, literally and figuratively.
The Return of Israel's Most Controversial Filmmaker
Crossposted from Haaretz
The Furious Literary Prankster, Romain Gary
The Romain Gary French Cultural Center on Kikar Safra in West Jerusalem is named in honor of the French Jewish author, born Roman Kacew in Vilnius in 1914. His multi-faceted literary exploits have been explored in his own memoirs, in Ralph Schoolcraft’s astute 2002 study “Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow” from University of Pennsylvania Press and in a new biography, “Romain Gary: A Tall Story” by David Bellos due out this December from Random House Canada.