EDGE OF TOWN: Rashi, We Hardly Knew Ye; New film animates the life of the greatest commentator of them all.

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: November 19, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

EDGE OF TOWN: Rashi, We Hardly Knew Ye; New film animates the life of the greatest commentator of them all.

When Norman Mailer set out to write about Marilyn Monroe, he kept a bottle of her perfume, open, on his desk, a writer's stimulant.

Ashley Lazarus, director and co-producer of the new film "Rashi: A Light After The Dark Ages," opens any Chumash and there he is, Rashi, a fragrance still wafting through Jewish life from almost a millennium away. Lazarus, a South African emigre, studies Rashi with a blind rabbi who fingertips the Torah in Braille. Lazarus reads Rashi aloud and the blind ...

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