From One Language to Another

From One Language to Another
Director: Nurith Aviv
Germany/Belgium/Israel/France 2004 55 mins
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"Sometimes I wake up with the fear that the Hebrew I learned at such great pains will fade away and vanish"
Aharon Appelfeld

"From the moment I wanted to enter the Hebrew language in order to write, I knew I had to kill Russian, eliminate it."
Meir Wieseltier

Hebrew, the sacred language of scriptures and prayers, is now the every day language of Israel. But its usage has not come without sacrifice.
Poets, writers, singers and actors speak of the relationship between Hebrew and the language of their childhood whose music still echoes within them.

Followed by a conversation between filmmaker Nurit Aviv and Psychoanalyst Rosine Perelberg