Nemt: A Language Without a People for a People Without a Language

This documentary is an attempt to redefine the place of Yiddish in today's world. It explores the identity and universality of Yiddish culture as one of the filmmakers’ returns to her native Lithuania and attempts to find clues to a history that was interrupted by the Holocaust and later again when the family left the Soviet world. The Summer Yiddish Program in Vilnius is the centerpiece of an investigation of the vitality and renaissance of a linguistic and spiritual treasure. Nemt is the last Yiddish inscription rescued from the walls of Vilnius, the "Jerusalem of Lithuania," once a thriving capital of Jewish culture.