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Toby Perl Freilich

Toby Perl Freilich is a film-maker and writer based in Jerusalem and New York. Her most recent film is Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment. She is currently at work on a documentary about the late New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Fall 2014

Available Light: Pictures from Yemen

By: Toby Perl Freilich

Yihye Haybi, a Jewish medical assistant to an Italian doctor in Sana'a, found himself in possession of a camera. Self-taught and working under difficult circumstances, he captured the waning days of Yemen's ancient Jewish community.