Our next Scholars Circle features an exclusive interview with Salvador Litvak, the talented director of the new film Guns & Moses, conducted by Scott Shay.
Sal directed Saving Lincoln, based on the true story of Abraham Lincoln and his closest friend & bodyguard, Ward Hill Lamon. This epic indie features a new visual style called CineCollage, which places the actors within actual Civil War photographs. The film’s Gettysburg Address scene has been incorporated into Houghton Mifflin’s standard American history textbook, used by students across the country. Sal wrote all these films with his wife, Nina, and produced them under the banner of his production company, Pictures From The Fringe. Sal & Nina share Jewish wisdom, humor, and history with over a million followers at Accidental Talmudist. He teaches a daily Talmud class to a diverse audience of thousands of people around the world. The project arose from Sal’s faith journey to becoming an Orthodox Jew. His first book, Let My People Laugh: The Greatest Jewish Jokes Of All Time!, published by Skyhorse, is an Amazon bestseller. Sal’s golf game needs work, but he coached the gold medal-winning USA Masters golf team at the 2022 Maccabiah Games in Israel.
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