cent in a way that people one genera- tion older had been," says Green. As The Weather Underground makes clear, the government's pursuit of war in Vietnam and its attacks on the Black Panthers — exemplified by the murder of Fred Hampton by Chicago police — reeked of fascism to those on the left. Green, who came of age at a time when American youth was decidedly apolitical, was attracted to men and women of an earlier generation who put their necks on the line for their principles. "I grew up in a household that was very culturally Jewish," he says. "My parents are nice liberal people in the best sense of the word. My mother was an antiwar activist and is still involved in political stuff. We often argue about politics. So my interest comes out of that background." Jewish moviegoers will detect the dis- tinct spirit of tikkun olam, or repairing the world, in Green's interviews with former and current radicals in The Weather Underground, most of who con- tinue to work for eqimlity and justice. Another quintessentially Jewish aspect of the film is the questioning by the years with her second stepfather. "That was one bonding too many I was asked to do, and it just didn't work." In 1965, Slesin moved to Manhattan, she said, "to start my grownup life in a place with no history or baggage from my family." Because of her refugee experience, she was "never a joiner," but she was a good observer — which in part led her to become a filmmaker. Over the next 30 years, Slesin made movies that were anything but personal, whining the Oscar for her 1987 docu- mentary, The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table. The change came after she attended a convention of hidden children in 1991; two years later, she set off for Salenekas' Kovno, Lithuania, home with a transla- tor. "I wanted to see if I could get some memories or any kind of clues into my character," she said. "I also wanted to find out why she risked her life to save me, but she just sighed a lot when I asked her that. She wasn't really able to answer." Slesin hoped to learn more by quizzing survivors who, like herself, had been hidden by rescuers without appar- ent ulterior motives. Weathermen to this day of their own accomplishments, and a painful recogni- tion of their mistakes even as the Jewish kids in SDS were uniquely and acutely sensitive to the gulf between what America stood for and its government's actions. "I grew up knowing there was us (the Jews) and them (the Americans)," Rudd writes. "One response as an outsider is to be critical of the existing mores and culture of the insiders. 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