About the Author

Eric A. Goldman is founder and president of Ergo Media, a New Jersey-based video publishing company specialising in Jewish-oriented video. He has been writing and lecturing about Yiddish, Israeli, and Jewish Film since the 1970s and is film reviewer for New Jersey's The Jewish Standard. He is former director of the Jewish Media Service, which was a program resource on film and television for the North American Jewish community. Prior to that, he was curator film for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and director of the New Jewish Media Project. He has curated and moderated film programs to Hebrew Union College, Yeshiva University, the 92nd street Y and the Centre for Jewish History in New York.

In 1999, he became artistic director of the Jack Wolgin Jewish Film Festival in Philadelphia. He was also a member of the Educational Advisory Committee of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum In Washington, DC and has served as juror at the Jerusalem International Film Festival and the First International Festival of Jewish Cinema held in Tiberias. He has also produced and directed for radio, TV, film and Video.

Goldman Received a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from NYU and was a fellow of the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at Columbia University. He holds graduate degrees in Contemporary Jewish Studies and Theater Arts from Brandeis University and was an adjunct fellow at the Centre for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Goldman is presently adjunct associate professor of cincma at Yeshiva University.