Concerts, Comedy, Plays, Film
Radio Program Screening | Discussion
The Lemon Tree
Hosted by Third Coast Festival's Gwen Macsai with special guest Sandy Tolan
Monday, May 19 at 6:30 pm
Tickets: $10 | $8 for students, Spertus members and Chicago Public Radio members.
Tickets available through the Third Coast Festival. 312.948.4682.
The Third Coast Festival Listening Room presents a radio documentary exploring the roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict through the story of one deep friendship.
The Lemon Tree originally aired on WHYY's Fresh Air in 1998. It tells a complicated tale of history, politics, and friendship, through the first-person accounts of an Israeli woman and Palestinian man whose lives are fatefully and inextricably joined.
Bashir was six during the height of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when his family was forced to flee his stone home in old Palestine and live as refugees in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Three months later, six-month-old Dalia, whose Bulgarian family had survived the Holocaust, arrived by boat in the new nation of Israel, and moved in. Two decades later Bashir crossed the threshold of his old house and rang the bell. Dalia answered.
This forty-minute audio documentary will be "screened" in the Feinberg Theater at Spertus. Producer Sandy Tolan hosts a question-and-answer session about the documentary. Tolan's book, inspired by the radio story and also titled The Lemon Tree, will also be available for purchase.
A production of Chicago Public Radio, the Third Coast International Audio Festival celebrates the best documentary and feature work being produced worldwide for radio and the Internet. For more information, visit www.thirdcoastfestival.org.
This event is held as part of Spertus' recognition of Israel's 60th anniversary.