life of Ari Rath, the prominent journalist who served as editor of The
Jerusalem Post for many years. The son of a typical Jewish bourgeois
Viennese family had to transform his life totally when, at the age of 13,
with Austria's Anschluss to Hitler's "Third Reich," the world which he knew
collapsed overnight. Forced to leave Vienna in November 1938, he had
only a vague notion of the realities of life in Jewish Palestine. Together
with long-time friends, Ari recalls his arrival in Haifa, his introduction to
physical labor at the Ahawah Home for Youth and Children, everyday life
at Kibbutz Hamadiya, as well as his forced departure from The Jerusalem
Post in 1989. Ari Rath, a proud member of Israel’s pioneer generation, also expresses his disappointment with political developments in that country
in the wake of Rabin’s murder and the construction of the Wall separating
Palestinians and Israelis.
Documentary, AUT 2005, DVCAM, 60 mins., german with engl. subtitles /
english
