Panel Discussion: Jewish Film in 2024 - Featuring Film Critics and Jewish Film Festival Curator David Schwartz

Sunday, Apr. 27 2025, 11:00

• David Schwartz is a New York-based film curator and critic. He is curator-at-large for Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), where he worked for many years as Chief Curator. In 2019, Schwartz received a Career Achievement Award from the New York Film Critics Circle for his tenure at MoMI. He writes about film for Screen Slate, Reverse Shot, MUBI Notebook, and Film Comment, edited the book David Cronenberg: Interviews, and taught film history at Purchase College and New York University. He is on the Board of Directors for The Film-makers’ Cooperative.
• Film critic at the Village Voice for over three decades, J. Hoberman has written over a dozen books, including Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds (with Jeff Shandler) and Entertaining America: Jews, Movies and Broadcasting, and contributed to numerous anthologies. His most recently published book is a monograph on the Marx Brothers's movie Duck Soup. He currently teaches a graduate seminar in documentary theory at Columbia University.
• Esther Zuckerman is an entertainment journalist whose work has appeared in publications like the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg, GQ, The Hollywood Reporter, and many more. She is the author of Falling in Love at the Movies, Beyond the Best Dressed, and A Field Guide to Internet Boyfriends. Esther lives and writes in New York City.
• Jordan Hoffman is a culture writer and critic whose work is currently read in Foreign Policy Magazine, Vanity Fair, Vulture, The Hollywood Reporter, Fangoria, and Decider dot com. He also publishes a newsletter on Substack called HOFFSTACK that you really ought to subscribe to. He is a member and former chair of the New York Film Critics Circle and has co-authored a book about Star Trek. His favorite apple is the Winesap.

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