The Ruins of Lifta

Menachem Daum, an elderly Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn, tries to bring together Arabs and Jews for an effort to rehabilitate a Muslim cemetery in the Palestinian village of Lifta. In the process, Daum learns of his uncle’s complicity in driving Arabic citizens from their land in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War., This stirring documentary follows Menachem Daum, an elderly Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn, as he tries to bring together Arabs and Jews for an effort to rehabilitate a Muslim cemetery in the Palestinian village of Lifta. In the process, Daum learns of his uncle’s complicity in driving Arabic citizens from their land in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.