Сonversation with Tamara Vershitskaya about Jewish mysticism and the Soviet background

Tamara tells how she came to research the Jewish topic, and became fascinated by it, and could not say goodbye to this topic. About her own Jewish research projects in Navahrudak. And also about her grandfather and about how Belarusians and Jews parted ways during the war. 

Mysticism and religious features of the Jews. Mysticism and signs in our life. 

The project of an Australian Jew with Lithuanian roots, who was interested in the Bielski uprising and the distribution of the anthem of the Jewish partisans. And at the same time, a Navahrudak Jew, a Soviet citizen, who worked at the place where the tunnel was dug by Navahrudak Jews, and who “was not interested in it”. And what did the Soviet era do to people who forgot who they were. 

Movies on the topic recommended for watching:

1. “The Book of Curses”, documentary (2008) based on the diary written by one of the prisoners of the Navahrudak ghetto. Producers: Tamara Vyarshytskaya, Michael Kagan.

2. Defiance, feature film (2009, Lithuania) about the Jewish partisan unit of the Belski brothers from Navahrudak.

July 2021 

Location – Lyubcha

Language – Belarusian.

No translation.

No subtitles.

Duration 17 min 20 sec.