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The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg is a 1998 documentary film written, directed, and produced by Aviva Kempner about Hank Greenberg, first baseman of the Detroit Tigers, who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. A Jewish player who chose not to play on Yom Kippur in 1934 during a heated pennant race, Greenberg had to face a great deal of antisemitism. In 1938 he nearly broke Babe Ruth's 60 home run record by hitting 58 home runs.
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of Vilna", a documentary on Jewish resistance against the Nazis. She founded the Washington Jewish Film Festival in 1989.
Additionally, she was the executive producer of the 1989 Grammy Award-nominated record "Partisans of Vilna: The Songs of World War II Jewish Resistance".
She is the scriptwriter, director and producer of "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg", a film about first Jewish baseball star in the Major Leagues. Facing anti-Semitism in the ’30s and ’40s, Greenberg welcomed