Yibbum

The story of a grand-son of a “Yibbum child” – it means of a child coming from Jewish tradition of levirate marriage – in the search of his identity. The journey is bringing us inside religion, family values and history till a certain sense of attachment to the land – all aspects that could help to define what it could mean to be Jewish.

Yibbum (hebrew word for levirate marriage) is a type of mariage which obliges the oldest surviving brother of a man who dies childless to marry the widow of his childless deceased brother, with the firstborn child being treated as that of the deceased brother.