JCC Jews of the Wild West Film Screening and Virtual Q&A

The Eiteljorg explores the intersection of the arts, histories, and cultures of the past and present by sharing the diverse stories of the American West and the Indigenous Peoples of North America.

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Join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary, Jews of the Wild West! With a Q&A following with the filmmaker!

Join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary, Jews of the Wild West! With a Q&A following with the filmmaker!Western Jewish pioneers, those of the silver screen and real life, are a largely forgotten chapter in US History. And yet, they played a definitive role shaping the expansion of the United States. There were nationally known names such as Levi Strauss, Samsonite founder Jesse Shwayder and the Guggenheim family, who built their great success through grit and determination in California and Colorado. A young Golda Meir spent formative years in Denver. And there were also lesser-known characters such as Solomon Bibo, a Prussian immigrant, who became a non-Native American tribal leader in New Mexico and Solomon Carvalho, a Sephardic painter and photographer who spent the mid-1800s documenting the territories of Kansas, Colorado and Utah. Wyatt Earp’s wife, Josephine Marcus Earp, was a Jewish actress whose beauty is rumored to have triggered the fight at the OK Corral. And by the end of the 19th Century nearly every notorious Wild West town had a Jewish mayor.“Jews of the Wild West” is a feature length documentary. The independent not-for-profit film is produced by Electric Yolk Media and directed by award-winning filmmaker Amanda Kinsey. Through on-camera interviews, compelling footage, and historical photographs, the film tells a positive immigration story and highlights the dynamic contributions Jewish Americans made to shaping the Western United States. The film premiered at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival in early 2022. About the Filmmaker:"Jews of the Wild West" is directed by Amanda Kinsey. Amanda is an independent filmmaker, five-time Emmy Award winning producer and fourth-generation photojournalist. Prior to founding her own production company, Electric Yolk Media in 2013, she spent over a decade writing and producing for NBC News. During that time, she was also awarded with several Edward R. Murrow Awards, National Headliner Awards and a Gracie Allen Award. In 2010, Amanda won an Emmy for her Today Show story “The Fighting Grossmans” about a Jewish American family with eight soldier sons in WWII. Her most recent productions are an hour long documentary for PBS’s “Treasures of New York” and a docuseries for VICE Sports. Amanda holds a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.B.A from Columbia Business School. Five years ago, Amanda relocated from Brooklyn to Denver with her family. She is not Jewish and sees this project as an important act of allyship with the goal of amplifying Jewish voices. Her passion for the Wild West is personal. Amanda's grandmother was born in Denver and once jumped out of an airplane for $100, her great-grandparents ran a photography studio in Butte, Montana at the turn of the century and her great-great-grandfather owned a San Francisco saloon during the California Gold Rush.

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