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L.I.F.E. Lecture - Film Screening of “The Levys of Monticello”

Sunday, January 12, 2025 • 12 Tevet 5785

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Followed by talkback with Director, Steve Pressman

Monticello, the longtime and cherished home of Thomas Jefferson, had fallen into a state of serious disrepair by the time of Jefferson’s death on July 4, 1826. Jefferson was heavily in debt when he died, and his heirs had no choice but to sell Monticello within a few years. The Levys of Monticello tells the astonishing, and little-known, story of a Jewish family that came to own Monticello from the 1830s until the 1920s. The Levys of Monticello also tells a broader story about anti-Semitism that runs throughout the course of American history, right up to the present day.

Steven Pressman was born and raised in Los Angeles and received an undergraduate degree in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He worked as a newspaper and magazine journalist. As a filmmaker, he produced and directed 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus, which received an Emmy nomination. In addition to his work as a filmmaker, Steve is the author of 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany (HarperCollins, 2014).

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