Amy Kronish

Amy Kronish writes about Israeli film. She served for fifteen years as the curator of Jewish and Israeli Film at the Jerusalem Cinematheque and for three years as the Director of Coexistence Programming for the Jerusalem International YMCA. She is the author of World Cinema: Israel and co-author of Israeli Film: A Reference Guide. In addition, she has published numerous articles on Israeli and Jewish cinema and blogs at israelfilm.blogspot.co.il. She has an M.A. in Communications from NYU (1973) and has lived in Jerusalem since 1979.

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