Toby Perl Freilich is a documentary filmmaker and writer living in Jerusalem. She co-produced and directed 'Moynihan,' a film about the late NY senator. Freilich also directed, produced, and wrote, 'Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment,' and wrote and co-produced, 'Secret Lives: Hidden Children & Their Rescuers during WW II.' She has written for the Jewish Review of Books, Tablet, the Forward, and Sh’ma. Her current project is a film about artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles, the first artist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation.
!['The rituals of Shabbes and holidays and the lively Hasidic niggunim as well as their soulful prayer marked the happiest and deepest memories of my father’s prewar life.' [Image from the Joseph and Margit Hoffman Judaica Postcard Collection, The Folklore Research Center at the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; available via the National Library of Israel Digital Collection]](https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/blogs/uploads/2021/09/Toby1-640x400.jpg "'The rituals of Shabbes and holidays and the lively Hasidic niggunim as well as their soulful prayer marked the happiest and deepest memories of my father’s prewar life.' [Image from the Joseph and Margit Hoffman Judaica Postcard Collection, The Folklore Research Center at the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; available via the National Library of Israel Digital Collection]")