{"id":23890,"date":"2012-12-31T02:43:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T09:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=23890"},"modified":"2012-12-31T02:45:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T09:45:37","slug":"the-great-book-robbery-israeli-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=23890","title":{"rendered":"The Great Book Robbery &#8211; Israeli Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/image003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-23891\" alt=\"image003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/image003.jpg\" width=\"461\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/image003.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/image003-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cultural salvage and preservation, or looting? That is the question Benny Brunner&#8217;s new film, <em>The Great Book Robbery<\/em>, seeks to answer, as it tracks books collected from the homes of Palestinians in Jerusalem, Haifa, Jaffa and other places in 1948.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli premiere of <em>The Great Book Robbery<\/em> will take place at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque on January 3, 2013 at 19:00.<br \/>\nThe film includes interviews with eyewitnesses to the events of 1948, archival footage, CGI (computer generated images), and documents. Read more about the project on <a href=\"http:\/\/thegreatbookrobbery.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Great Book Robbery website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Screening dates and venues:<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, January 3rd at 19:00 &#8211; Tel Aviv Cinematheque, 5 HaArba&#8217;a Street, Tel Aviv,\u00a0 03-6060800.<br \/>\nMonday, January 7th at 19:00 &#8211; Jerusalem Cinematheque, 11 Hebron Road, Jerusalem, 02-5654356.<br \/>\nThursday, January 10th at 19:00 &#8211; Haifa Cinematheque, 142 Sderot HaNassi. 04-8104299\/302.<br \/>\nThere will be a US screening tour of the film in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cultural salvage and preservation, or looting? That is the question Benny Brunner&#8217;s new film, The Great Book Robbery, seeks to answer, as it tracks books collected from the homes of Palestinians in Jerusalem, Haifa, Jaffa and other places in 1948. The Israeli premiere of The Great Book Robbery will take place at the Tel Aviv [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}