Nicky's Family

Screening for an exclusive two week season at the Classic Cinema from December 1st

In 1939, Nicholas Winton ordered stationery and rubber stamps in the name of The British Committee for Refugees In Czechoslovakia, thus appointing himself the saviour of Jewish refugee children who would otherwise have been trapped. Winton's impish chutzpah, combined with a steely willpower, made him their indomitable advocate.

Nicky's Family utilises interviews with the children that were saved, now seniors themselves, along with footage of the survivor's own families and archive footage of the Kindertransporte. A favourite film of the 2011 Jewish Film Festival.

Giveaway: 5 in-season double passes
Session times and details: Classic Cinemas
How to Enter: Email Giveaways (giveaways@ClassicCinemas.com.au) with your name and phone number. Only winners will be notified.

Jewish Museum Giveaway

We have 10 double passes to giveaway to see Mameloshn and the Babel project.

Don't be a shmendrick! Don't miss out! Get to the Museum before the season's out!

If you haven't yet seen our current temporary exhibitions, come down to the Museum for a great summer holiday outing. Running until Sunday 11 March 2012.

Giveaway: There are 10 double passes to be won. Please email Marketing with your name, phone number, address by Wednesday 7 December 5pm. Only winners will be notified.

 

Summer Reading!

We have 10 double passes to giveaway to see Mameloshn and the Babel project.

Don't be a shmendrick! Don't miss out! Get to the Museum before the season's out!

1. ANNA FUNDER's ALL THAT I AM from Penguin

The gripping first novel by Anna Funder, the acclaimed author of Stasiland, based on a true story. All That I Am, is moving and beautifully written, equal parts a love story, thriller and testament to individual heroism. It evokes books like Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise, Bernard Schlink's The Reader and William Boyd's Restless - intelligent, powerful novels that appeal to a wide audience.

'When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The wireless in the living room was turned up loud, but all that drifted down to me were waves of happy cheering, like a football match. It was Monday afternoon...'

Ruth Becker, defiant and cantankerous, is living out her days in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. She has made an uneasy peace with the ghosts of her past – and a part of history that has been all but forgotten.

Another lifetime away, it's 1939 and the world is going to war. Ernst Toller, self-doubting revolutionary and poet, sits in a New York hotel room settling up the account of his life.

When Toller's story arrives on Ruth's doorstep their shared past slips under her defences, and she's right back among them – those friends who predicted the brutality of the Nazis and gave everything they had to stop them. Those who were tested – and in some cases found wanting – in the face of hatred, of art, of love, and of history.

Based on real people and events, All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places. Anna Funder confirms her place as one of our finest writers with this gripping, compassionate, inspiring first novel.

Giveaway: There is one copy of All That I Am to be won. Please email Marketing with your name, phone number, address and let us know why you want to win the book by Wednesday 7 December 5pm. Only one winner will be notified.

 

2. EYE OF THE STORM - PATRICK WHITE from Miranda Brown Publicity

Elizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itself to those around her. From this simple scenario Patrick White unfurls a monumental exploration of the tides of love and hate, comedy and tragedy, impotence and and longing that fester within family relationships.

Giveaway:There are two copies of Eye of the Storm to be won. Please email Marketing with your name, phone number, address and let us know why you want to win the book by Wednesday 7 December 5pm. Only one winner will be notified.

 

 

 

3. JOHN WATERS' ROLE MODELS from Miranda Brown Publicity

A self-portrait told through intimate and literary profiles of his favourite personalities - which range from the famous to the unknown - John Waters invites readers to appreciate some of the figures who helped him form his own brand of neurotic happiness.

Among many others, Role Models features Waters' musings on Johnny Mathis, Comme Des Garcons founder Rei Kawakubo, actress Patty McCormack, writers Tennessee Williams, Lionel Shriver and Ivy Compton-Burnett, insane martyr Saint Catherine of Siena, English novelist Denton Welch, ex-Manson follower Leslie van Houten, lesbian stripper Zorro, artist Cy Twombly and outsider pornographers Bobby Garcia and David Hurles.

From the sublime to the extreme, Role Models is a personal invitation into one of the most unique, perverse and hilarious artistic minds of our time.

Giveaway:There are three copies of Role Models to be won. Please email Marketing with your name, phone number, address and let us know why you want to win the book by Wednesday 7 December 5pm. Only one winner will be notified.