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NOV 6, 7:30 pm

Roger Bennett

Producer, Sons of Sakhnin United

About the Film

Roger Bennett is the Senior Vice President of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies in New York where he has spent time looking at generational changes in identity and community. He has helped to found Reboot, a network of young Jewish creatives; Grand Street, a network of young people in family philanthropy; and 21/64, a consulting division specializing in next generation and intergenerational strategic philanthropy. He is the co-author of Bar Mitzvah Disco, an examination of identity, culture, and style as told through bar/bat mitzvah photographs of the 1970's and 80's (Crown, 2005), the summer camp sequel Camp Camp (Crown, 2008), and the upcoming And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl, a history of Jews in America as told by the vinyl record covers of 1940's through 80's (Crown, November 2008). He is also the producer of the documentary film, Sons of Sakhnin United, which follows a season in the life of Israel's leading Arab soccer team, and a partner in the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation, a record label and archive dedicated to tracking down lost Jewish music and the musicians who created it.