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Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
God, Torah, and Israel. These three concepts (i.e., personal belief, the meaning of Jewish ritual acts, and the purpose of continued Jewish existence) have been the focus of Jewish thought throughout history. But the last four centuries presented Jewish thinkers with difficult challenges. These lectures address the challenges to Jewish intellectual thought in the past 500 years, identifying such challenges and revealing the ways in which a small group...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-four 30 minute lectures given by Professsor David B. Ruderman, Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Pennsylvania, present an overview of Jewish culture and society, focusing on the encounter between rabbinic civilization and the social, economic, political, and intellectual environments of medieval Islam and Christendom.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Examines the unique role of Jewish composers and lyricists in the creation of the modern American musical. This entertaining documentary mingles cultural history with illuminating perspectives on the origins and meanings of some of Broadway's most beloved songs, stories and shows.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Simon Schama presents this epic series exploring the extraordinary story of the Jewish experience from ancient times to the present day. Both deeply historical and utterly contemporary, this is a compelling film about distinctiveness and difference, separation and isolation, tolerance and prejudice. It is also a celebration of the ways in which Jewish thought, imagination, and achievement have transformed the world for us all.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Hadassah, the young Jewish girl who becomes the Biblical Esther, Queen of Persia. Despite her position, Hadassah's life is in danger, as the state has decreed that all Jews will be put to death. Defying warnings to remain silent, however, Hadassah struggles to save her people, even as she seeks to win the heart of the king.
28) Europa Europa
Series
Criterion collection volume 985
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
"As World War II splits Europe, sixteen-year-old German Jew Salomon (Marco Hofschneider) is separated from his family after fleeing with them to Poland, and finds himself reluctantly assuming various ideological identities in order to hide the deadly secret of his Jewishness. He is bounced from a Soviet orphanage, where he plays a dutiful Stalinist, to the Russian front, where he hides in plain sight as an interpreter for the German army, and back...
30) Golden voices
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
עברית
Description
Raya and Victor built a shared career as the Soviet Union's most beloved film dubbers, translating the work of Federico Fellini and Stanley Kubrick into Russian over the decades. Upon the collapse of the USSR in 1990, the Jewish couple must immigrate to Israel and reinvent their talents to find employment. As they strive to acclimate to their adopted home, opportunities for first-rate vocal performances are few and far between. Raya answers a help...
31) The flat
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Deutsch
Description
In this autobiographical documentary The Flat, filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger travels to Tel Aviv to clean out the apartment of his recently-deceased German-born Jewish grandmother. Goldfinger begins an unsettling journey into his family's history and discovers that knowing the truth can be a terrible burden. Both arresting and heartbreaking, The Flat is a real-life suspense story about how the past can return to haunt the present.
32) 1945
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Hungarian
Formats
Description
"On a summer day in 1945, an Orthodox man and his grown son return to a village in Hungary while the villagers prepare for the wedding of the town clerk's son. The townspeople - suspicious, remorseful, fearful, and cunning - expect the worst and behave accordingly. The town clerk fears the men may be heirs of the village's deported Jews and expects them to demand their illegally acquired property back."--From publisher's website.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Using instruments as passports for millennia, wandering Jewish musicians are still among us. From ram's horn to beatbox, from Argentina to Uganda, explores the kaleidoscope of Jewish identities through the ever-changing music of the diaspora. In constant motion, the film is a series of encounters with Jewish musicians from around the world. Taking their music beyond the concert hall, join in the spontaneous magic of a creative process that transcends...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of Jewish Americans from 1654 though the present day. Chronicles the achievements of American Jews in diverse fields including politics, law, medicine, science, the military, art, literature, music, film and television, social activism, business, economics, sports, and the Internet.
35) Uncut gems
Series
Criterion collection volume 1101
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This jolt of pure cinematic adrenaline affirmed directors Josh and Benny Safdie as heirs to the gritty, heightened realism of Martin Scorsese and John Cassavetes. Adam Sandler delivers an almost maniacally embodied performance as Howard Ratner, a fast-talking New York jeweler in relentless pursuit of the next big score. When he comes into possession of a rare opal, it seems Howard's ship has finally come in as long as he can stay one step ahead of...
36) Keep quiet
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
As vice-president of Hungary's far-right extremist party, Csanad Szegedi espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denials, and founded the Hungarian Guard, a now-banned militia inspired by a pro-Nazi group complicit in the murder of thousands of Jews during WWII. But his life was soon upended when Szegedi's maternal grandparents were revealed to be Jewish and his beloved grandmother an Auschwitz survivor who had hidden her faith, fearing further...
37) Spiral
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
The story of how a cycle of fear, hatred, and violence has taken hold and created a resurgence of anti-Semitism in France and in the wider world.
39) Zrubavel
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
עברית
Description
Gite Zrubavel, a proud Ethiopian Jew, struggles to hang onto his traditions and control his family as events spiral out of control. A daughter wants to marry against her parents' wishes. A son is turning to crime.
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Italiano
Description
Set in Italy in 1938, when Mussolini's anti-Semitic edicts began to isolate the Jews from their communities. Among them were the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family forced for the first time to acknowledge the world beyond its fenced garden.
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