Q&A with Dr. Yael Berda and Judith Manassen Ramon, Producer of The Lost Crown
Channel: Boston Jewish Film
Date: 2020-07-21

Q+A conversation with The Lost Crown film producer Judith Manassen Ramon and Professor Yael Berda, moderated by ReelAbilities Film Festival Director Katka Reszke.

Originally recorded on November 10, 2019, as part of the 2019 Boston Jewish Film Festival.

Judith Manassen Ramon is a film producer and researcher. Her films include The Lost Crown, Dolphin Boy (BJFF 2011), and One Angry Vegan. She is working on a Ph.D. in Media Psychology. 

Yael Berda is a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and author. She is a professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a visiting lecturer at Harvard University. Her most recent book is Living Emergency: Israel's Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank. 

About The Lost Crown:
The Aleppo Codex, the oldest known manuscript of the Bible, was the crown of Syria’s Jewish community for seven centuries. But after riots set fire to the synagogue where it lived, the city’s Jews decided to smuggle the Codex to safety in Israel. En route, a third of the book's pages mysteriously disappeared. Were they simply lost in the fire or is there a more sordid history? Filmmaker Avi Dabach meets the people obsessed with this affair — from a best-selling author to an elderly Mossad agent, to find out and uncovers a web involving antique dealers, wealthy collectors, and corrupt officials.

Watch the trailer at https://youtu.be/tUUucpp55iA