TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tumanov, Vladimir
T1  - Daniel and the Sonnenscheins : biblical cycles in István Szabó's film "Sunshine"
T2  - The journal of religion and film : JR&F
N2  - As the exilic experience, initiated in 587 B.C.E., continued over millennia, no one has been able to settle the question of what it means to be a diaspora Jew. Are those who actively participate in non-Jewish life still in a position to claim the heritage of Israel? And what about Jews who actively seek assimilation and renounce their roots altogether: are they still Jews in spite of themselves? Authors, from Joseph Roth to Sholom Aleichem to Chaim Potok, have tried to deal with this issue in light of different diaspora circumstances. One of the most recent perspectives on Jewish identity comes to us through "Sunshine", a powerful film by the Hungarian director Istvan Szabó (1999). Szabó, who wrote the screenplay with Israel Horowitz, tells the story of several generations in one Hungarian Jewish family: the Sonnenscheins. Living at the turn of the twentieth century, the patriarch of the Sonnenschein clan is Emmanuel, a successful distiller who seems to have found a balance between the two exilic extremes: neither complete assimilation, nor a retreat from gentile society.
KW  - Szabó, István
KW  - Diaspora / Juden
Y1  - 2004
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37776
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-377765
UR  - http://avalon.unomaha.edu/jrf/Vol8No2/TumanovSunshine.htm
SN  - 1092-1311
VL  - 8
IS  - 2
PB  - University of Nebraska, Department of Philosophy and Religion
CY  - Omaha
ER  -