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Advice And Dissent
2002, USA, 21 minutes, Color
Directed By Leib Cohen
35mm DVD VHS
A frustrated businessman, Jeffery Goldman (John Pankow) tries to end his hopeless marriage by asking his local Rabbi (Eli Wallach) to place a curse on his wife. More
East Germany, 1948, 109 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Erich Engel
16mm
This early postwar suspense story, based on a well-known 1926 murder trial with Dreyfus-like overtones represents an East German reflection on Nazism. More
Germany, 1990, 82 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Emanuel Rund
16mm DVD
Interviews with former Nazi Party members, townspeople and the switchboard operator from Theresienstadt are conducted by German high school students... More
USA, 2000, 60 min, color
Directed by Monika Kopla
DVD VHS
Alois Brunner was a notorious Nazi war criminal having been responsible for sending more than 128,500 European Jews to death camps all across Europe. More
Israel, 1994, 53 minutes, color/B&W
English and Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Ilana Tsur
DVD
In 1948, the ship Altalena arrived in Israel carrying 930 World War II refugees and ammunition in direct violation of Prime Minister David Ben Gurion's new military chain-of-command. More
Poland, 1962, 15 minutes, B&W
Music- no narration/dialogue.
Directed by Janusz Morgenstern
16mm DVD
In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis. More
USA, 1938, 4 minutes, B&W
Narrator: Lowell Thomas
16mm
This Movietone newsreel from the week of November 20, 1938 is the only known filmed American news story about Kristallnacht. More
Restored by NCJF
USA 1940 87 minutes B&W
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
35mm 16mm DVD
Leo Fuchs, the "Yiddish Fred Astaire," stars in this musical comedy as Nat Silver, a debonair and fabulously wealthy Jewish-American businessman whose recent engagement (his eighth) goes awry. More
USA, 1997, 8 min, color
Directed by Susan Rivo
DVD
A poignant and hilarious personal narrative about the filmmaker’s lifelong attachment and deep bond with a stuffed animal received at birth.
USSR, 1941, 6 minutes, B&W
Russian, Yiddish and English with English subtitles
16mm DVD
In 1941, a group of the Soviet Union’s most prominent Jewish writers and artists signed an appeal to Jews throughout the world. More
Australia, 1993, 56 min, color
Directed by Judy Menczel
DVD VHS
Angst looks at the lives of three Jewish comedians—Deb Filler, Sandy Gutman, and Moshe Waldoks—whose parents are concentration camp survivors. More
Israel, 2004, 47 min, color
Hebrew w/ English subtitles
Directed by Adi Japhet Fuchs
DVD
Imagination, memories, and fiction combine in this film about the life and world of renowned Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld. More
Israel, 2001, 48 minutes, color
Hebrew w/ English subtitles
Directed by Moish Goldberg & Yonatan Gurfinke
DVD
Through decades of celebration, protest and turmoil, the massive Rabin Square, in the heart of Tel Aviv, has served as an arena for Israel's national drama. More
Belgium, 1980, 85 minutes, B&W
Directed by Myriam Abramowicz and Esther Hoffenberg
16mm DVD
Many Belgian citizens risked their lives in an effort to rescue over 4,000 Jewish children from deportation and extermination during WWII. More
Israel, 50, Minutes
Directed by Ayelet Bargur
DVD
This award winning drama focuses on one family waiting to hear news of a son who may be involved in a terrorist incident. More
Directed by Ayelet Bargur
Israel 50 Minutes
Hebrew w/English subtitles
VHS
Four young men, all commanders in the same Israeli Defense Force Golan Heights paratrooper unit, were killed over a twenty-two month period from 1995 to 1997. More
USSR, 1945, 21 minutes, B&W
Produced at the Central Documentary Film Studio
English narration
16mm DVD
This Soviet Army film of the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp was awarded the Red Banner in 1945. More
Israel, 1935, 50 minutes, B&W
Directed by Helmar Lerski
35mm VHS
This landmark documentary celebrates the pioneering labors of early Jewish settlers in Palestine. With striking visual compositions and a remarkable soundtrack by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, the film records the technological and agricultural accomplishments of the pioneers and extols the idea of a socialist Jewish state. Footage includes shots taken at the Jaffa port, in Tel Aviv, and on various kibbutzim of the time; Strasbourg-born director Lerski’s expressive style creates an almost mythic image of the Jew in Palestine, toiling and triumphing amidst the sweeping desert landscape.
Israel, 1994, 87 minutes, Color
Directed by Michal Bat-Adam
35mm DVD
Played by filmmaker Michal Bet-Adam, Aya is a woman who, since early childhood, has been driven by her father’s ambition to see her become successful. More
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USA, 2002, 56 minutes, color
Directed by Minna Packer
DVD
A tapestry of film and photographs including rare footage shot in Gombin in 1937, this film tells the story of a group of 50 children of survivors of the Shoah, who return to their parents’ Polish village of Gombin and experience acts of reconciliation, healing, and discovery. More
USA, 1999, 23 minutes, color
Directed by Jamil Simon
DVD
Where does one find the meaning of life? Perhaps it lies in the kitchen of sculptor Helene Simon, where she shows us how to make her world famous Baklava. More
Israel, 2000, 54 minutes, color
Directed by Ruth Walk
DVD VHS
This is a moving documentary portrait of Israel Becker, a founder of the first professional Yiddish theatrical company in post-war Germany and writer and star of the historic film Long Is the Road, the first feature to portray the Holocaust from a Jewish point of view. More
USA, 1926, 85 minutes, B&W, Silent
Directed by James Young
16mm
Lionel Barrymore stars as Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper whose political ambitions drive him to commit brutal murder in this 1926 melodrama based on Alexandre Chatrian and Emile Erckmann's 1869 play, "Le Jeuf Polonais" (The Polish Jew). Hunted by a circus mesmerist (chillingly played by Boris Karloff) and haunted by the ghost of his victim, Barrymore's Mathias is caught in a surreal fantasy where his guilty conscience torments him to the brink of spiritual agony. Although only marginally Jewish in subject matter, The Bells is an example of one way in which Jews have been stereotyped in theater and cinema-as the traveling merchant who becomes an easy target for violence and/or mockery.
France, 1999, 55 mins, color/B&W
Directed by Alex Szalat
16mm VHS
Yakov Ben Dov came to Jerusalem from the Ukraine in 1907 with little more than a still camera to his name. More
India, 1994, 33 minutes, color
Directed by Karen Nathanson and Jean-Francois Fernandez
DVD
This documentary is both an intimate family portrait and a fascinating ethnographic study of the Bene Israel, one of three groups of Jews living in India today. More
USA, 1978, 30 minutes, color
Directed by Robert Mitchell
16mm
This animated film featuring the voice of Herschel Bernardi traces the story of Chanukah through the fictional story of a young boy and his faithful donkey. The boy volunteers for a mission to obtain oil for the rededication of the temple. He goes off to Caesaria and overcomes one peril after another and returns successfully to Jerusalem by following the stars. Although the film takes considerable artistic license with the Chanukah story (especially the similarities to the Christmas story), it is still a delightful way to present Chanukah and the miracle of the oil. Recommended for ages 6-12.
Israel, 1993, 37 minutes, color
Hebrew with English Subtitles
Directed by Arnon Goldfinger
DVD VHS
Benny Zinger presents slide shows at weddings, until one day, while preparing a show for a couple, he falls in love with the bride. More
USA 1980 8 minutes Animated
Directed by Sally Heckel
16mm
The Bent Tree is an animated fable based on Itzik Manger's folk tune, "Afn Veg Shteyt a Boym" (On the Road Stands a Tree) about a child whose mother deprives him of freedom to explore the world. Josh Waletsky's music and vocals infuse this work with warmth and feeling. Recommended for younger children and/or Yiddish-speaking audiences."Sally Heckel's sand animation is skillful and lyrical, its patterns visually follow the flow of the song."
Edith Zornow, Film Producer, Children's Television Workshop, 1980
USSR, 1926, 90 minutes, B&W
Directed by V. Vilner
35mm DVD
The seamy Jewish underworld of Odessa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik ("Mike the Jap") Vinnitsky. More
Israel, 1984, 103 minutes, color
Directed by Uri Barbash
35mm
The story of an unusual friendship between two prisoners, a Palestinian Arab and an Israeli Jew, who manage to unite their respective groups in a revolt against prison authorities. More
UK, 1976, 60 minutes, color/B&W
Produced by Thames Television for the series "Destination: America"
16mm
This comprehensive, nostalgic exploration of the Jewish immigrant experience in New York City includes footage and interviews spanning 1900-1976. Beginning with footage of the Lower East Side at the turn of the century, the film progresses from sweatshops and labor strikes, to early American-Jewish institutions like the Daily Forward newspaper and Yeshiva University, to prosperous descendants of Jewish immigrants living on Long Island. Featuring commentary by Irving Howe and Sam Levenson, the hour is filled with wonderful images and tales; a most enjoyable history lesson for all.
USA, 1988, 106 minutes, color
Directed by Mike Nichols
16mm
The further adventures of Eugene Jerome, Neil Simon's youthful alter ego introduced in Brighton Beach Memoirs. Here, World War II is winding down and Eugene (Matthew Broderick) leaves Brooklyn for Biloxi, Mississippi and ten grueling weeks of army basic training. Also stars Christopher Walken, Matt Mulhern, and Penelope Ann Miller.
Australia, 1996, 70 Minutes, color
Directed by Monique Schwartz
16mm DVD
In the turmoil of World War II and the postwar era, thousands of poor, Jewish immigrants fled Europe to rebuild their lives in Carlton, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. More
Israel, 1993, 93 Minutes, color
Directed by Aner Preminger
35mm DVD VHS
Based on a novel by Lilly Perry Amitai, Blind Man's Bluff takes a bittersweet look at the life of a young Israeli woman. More
The Netherlands, 2001, 58 min, color
Directed by Benny Brunner & Daniel Cil Brecher
VHS
Millions of Jewish victims of the Holocaust have claimed and obtained monetary compensation for their persecution, enslavement, and dispossession. More
Canada, 1991, 53 minutes, color
Directed by Garry Beitel
16MM VHS
In the small Montreal municipality of Outremont, two very different communities live side by side: Hassidic Jews and their French-Catholic neighbors. More
Israel, 1991, 85 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Naomi Ben-Natan and Leora Kamenetzky
16MM DVD VHS
This penetrating documentary produced for Israel Educational Television looks at the lives of three Jewish women writers. More
USA. 2003 40 minutes
Directed by Beth Toni Kruvant
DVD VHS
This documentary provides personal insight and understanding into the difficult situation faced by the Jews of Argentina during the recent economic and political crisis. More
Canada, 1993, 51 minutes, color
Directed by Neal Livingston
DVD 16mm
This documentary focuses on a group of German and Austrian refugees who were deported from Britain in the summer of 1940 and sent to a Canadian prison camp. More
USA, 1939, 9 minutes, B&W
Produced by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
16mm DVD VHS
The JDC produced this film to record what it thought would be a successful effort to save over 900 Jews, including 200 children... More
Israel, 1989, 90 min, color
Directed by Yitzhak Halutzi
16mm VHS
Based on a true story, Braids tells the tale of So'ad, 14 year old Jewish girl imprisoned by the Iraqi government in 1947 for her participation in the Zionist movement. More
USA, 1922, 86 minutes, B&W silent
Directed by Frank N. Seltzer and George K. Rowlands
16mm VHS
As antisemitic campaigns increased in 1920s America, American Jews looked for a way to present Judaism in a positive light. It was inevitable that some would turn to the motion picture as a solution to this dilemma. Consequently, a number of feature length films dealing with Jewish themes appeared in the 1920s. Breaking Home Ties, produced by a "syndicate" of prominent Jews in Philadelphia, was one of the first. The stated goal of the film was to truthfully represent "the every-day life of the Jew, with emphasis on that human and sympathetic element in his nature too often overlooked...." The film focuses on David Bergman who, thinking he has killed a friend in a jealous rage, flees Russia and becomes a successful lawyer in New York. His penniless family follows him to America, but by now he has lost touch with them. When David gets married on the premises of a home for the aged (to which he and his bride have contributed) he is happily reunited with his family, who also live in the home. Cast: Lee Kohlmar, Rebecca Weintraub, Richard Farrell, Arthur Ashley, Betty Howe, Jane Thomas, Henry B. Schaffer, Maude Hill, Robert Maxmillian.
USA, 1984, 58 minutes, color
Directed by Edward A. Mason, M.D.
DVD
This PBS documentary tells a moving story of personal growth as the children of Holocaust survivors find the strength to confront their painful legacy and overcome the barriers of unasked and unanswered questions that separate them from their parents. More
USA, 1986, 110 minutes, color
Directed by Gene Saks
16mm
Screen version of Neil Simon's autobiographical play about two families living under the same roof in 1937 Brooklyn. Starring: Jonathan Silverman, Blythe Danner, Judith Ivey, Gene Saks.
Australia, 2006, 52 min, color documentary
Directed by Andrew Wiseman, Danny Ben-Moshe & Uri Mizrahi
DVD
Uplifting, full of swagger and joie de vivre, this film tells the story of 45 orphans who survived the Holocaust and found their way to Australia. More
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USA, 1931, 10 min, B&W
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin
35mm 16mm DVD VHS
Cantor Leibele Waldman plays multiple roles in this spoof of a synagogue committee in search of a chazan (cantor). More
USA, 1937, 90 min, b&w
Directed by Ilya Motyleff (Sidney Goldin, uncredited)
35mm DVD
This musical drama marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher who stars as a wayward youth who travels from Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side where he becomes a well-known singer. More
USA 1949 93 minutes B&W
Directed by Josef Berne
16mm DVD
A Jewish resort hotel celebrates a pair of longtime customers' fiftieth wedding anniversary by staging an old-fashioned Borscht Belt show. More
UK, 1981, 124 minutes, color
Directed by Hugh Hudson
16mm
Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture. An absorbing and unusual drama based on the true story of two men-devout Scottish missionary Eric Liddell and driven Jewish university student Harold Abrahams-who run in the 1924 Paris Olympics. Abrahams' Judaism figures significantly in the film, as he faces elitist anti-Semitism at Cambridge University.
UK, 1990, 52 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Naomi Gryn
16mm DVD VHS
Hugo Gryn was 15 years old when he left his hometown, Berehovo, never believing he would see it again. More
USA, 1910, 15 minutes
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by D. W. Griffith
16mm DVD
This short tale of Lower East Side life captures the hustle and bustle of Rivington Street through the lens of legendary Hollywood director D.W. Griffith. More
Poland 1935 63 minutes B&W
Directed by Aleksander Ford
16mm DVD
Directed by Lodz native Aleksander Ford and financed by the Jewish Labor movement in Poland, Children Must Laugh is one of the few surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before WWII. More
USA, 1992, 28 minutes, color
Director: Tom Demenkoff
DV
In 1944, one month before the end of World War II, the Gestapo in Lyon sent two vans to the French village of Izieu to remove Jewish children from an orphanage. More
USA, 1982, 108 minutes, color
Directed by Jeremy Paul Kagan
16mm
Adapted from Chaim Potok's best-selling novel, this film examines the differences among Orthodox Jews and conflicts between fathers and sons. Set in Brooklyn in the 1940's, the story focuses on two sons (Robbie Benson and Barry Miller) and two fathers (Maximilian Schell and Rod Steiger): Danny, the brilliant scion of a Hasidic dynasty in training to succeed his formidable father as Grand Rabbi; and Reuven, the son of a worldly progressive scholar. The boys develop a strong friendship and find themselves influenced by the other's father. When the fathers enter into a bitter, passionate conflict over the issue of Zionism, their devoted and dutiful sons must part ways-until one makes the painful choice to oppose his father and claim his own destiny.
Israel, 1998, 90 min, color Feature
Directed by Tzipi Trope
35mm VHS
In this the first Israeli feature film to deal with the subject of battered women, two women victimized by their husbands form a healing bond. More
Poland, 1994, 70 minutes, B&W
Directed by Jolanta Dylewska
DVD
In this documentary, Marek Edelman, a member of the Jewish Labor Bund and leading participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, gives a daily account of events from April 19 through May 10, 1942. More
Switzerland, 1999, 86 minutes 35
Directed byKaspar Kasics
35mm DVD VHS
Many years after World War II, evidence showing a connection between Swiss policy and the deportation and murder of Charles and Sabine Sonabend's parents at Auschwitz fall into Charles' hands. More
USA, 1929, 9 minutes, B&W
Directed by Robert Ross
16mm DVD
With the advent of sound, the vaudeville-immigrant genre added comic speech to its repertoire of physical comedy and funny situations. More
USA, 1913, 10 minutes, B&W, silent
Directed by Mack Sennett
16mm VHS
Ford Sterling, Keystone's most popular comedian before Chaplin, plays Cohen, a sergeant in the Union Army who is the bitter rival of another officer for the attentions of Rebecca... More
USA, 1904, 1 minute, B&W, silent
Directed by Edwin S. Porter
16mm VHS
This typical one-shot gag film was produced for the Edison Company by Edwin S. Porter, who had previously filmed the famous silent movie version ofThe Great Train Robbery. More
USA, 1907, 10 minutes, B&W, silent
Directed by Edwin S. Porter
16mm VHS
By 1907, extended stories had become popular over the single gag. As in Cohen's Advertising Scheme, Cohen is again portrayed as the "scheming merchant." More
USSR, 1919, 18 minutes, B&W
Silent with English Intertitles
Directed by Alexander Razumni
35mm 16mm DVD
This short propaganda film (or agitka) tells the tale of a Jew who survives a pogrom and becomes a leader in the Red Army. More
USA 1968 11 minutes B&W Yiddish (no subtitles)
Director: Abe Wexler
16mm DVD
Yes, it's just your typical all-Yiddish shoot-'em-up: a small boy falls out of a covered wagon on its way West and shows up years later as a quick trigger cowboy. More
USA, 1988, 97 minutes, color
Directed by Joan Micklin Silver
16mm
Set in modern-day New York, this romantic comedy highlights the contrasting values between first and third generation American Jews by focusing on a 33-year-old single Jewish woman (Amy Irving), who works, lives, and loves in the modern gentile world and repeatedly rejects her grandmother's efforts to find her a traditional Jewish suitor. When she meets "the Pickle Man" (Peter Riegert) she begins reexamining her values as a modern, assimilated Jew and her prejudices against the "traditional" Jewish world.
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Germany, 1999 (English Language version), 90 minutes, color
Directed byWolfgang Kolneder
VHS
Holocaust survivor Inge Deutschkron stunned German and Israeli audiences with her memoir, an account of her two years spent hiding from the Nazis in Berlin. Adapted for the stage as ‘From Now On Your Name Is Sara,’ Deutschkron’s story now comes to the screen in this documentary chronicling 70 years of her life and career.
USA, 1983, 130 minutes, color
Directed by Sidney Lumet
16MM
In this screen adaptation of E. L. Doctorow's celebrated novel "The Book of Daniel," the children of a couple patterned after Julius and Ethel Rosenberg must confront their painful heritage in order to deal with their own lives in the protest-filled 1960s. Stars Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Edward Asner, Ellen Barkin, and Amanda Plummer. (See also UNKNOWN SECRETS: Art and the Rosenberg Era )
USA, 1980, 30 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Sidney Reichman for the Jewish Museum of New York
VHS
This documentary details the struggles of Jews in the German city of Danzig to survive the brutal assault of the Nazis. All but approximately one hundred Danzig Jews escaped the Nazi terror because local synagogue leaders made the unprecedented move of selling their religious artifacts; the money gained from this sale was used to finance the immigration of the entire community. The film documents an exhibit exhibit of Danzig's religious treasures, reclaimed and stored at the Jewish Museum in New York City. Interviews with the survivors, along with film footage from 1939 and photographs of the lost community, paint an unforgettable portrait of a courageous people who managed to save their lives and part of their history from the murderous Nazi regime.
Palestine, 1934, 10 minutes, B&W
Hebrew (an English translation sheet accompanies film)
Produced by Davidoff Newsreel Company
16mm VHS
This newsreel segment depicts the first voyage of a Polish ocean liner to Palestine in 1934. The film contains crudely edited footage of the festive departure from the Black Sea port of Constanta, the passengers enjoying the pleasures of the open sea, the recitation of Yom Kippur prayers on deck, and an extended cantorial performance. Other images include passengers dancing the hora, singing Zionist songs, and the impressive urban vistas of Haifa and Tel-Aviv which greeted the visitors upon their arrival.
USA, 1970, 11 minutes, color
VHS
Frankness and family solidarity at the funeral help him to accept and understand what has happened. The film depicts Jewish mourning practices and attitudes toward death, and can serve as a starting point for a discussion of these traditions with young people.
Poland 1938 10 minutes B&W
Yiddish with complete, new English subtitles
16mm DVD
The lively Jewish neighborhoods of Warsaw, including Zamenhof Street and the commercial "beehive" Nalewki Street, were home to 400,000 Jews before World War II. More
Lithuania, 1999 65 minutes, color/B&W
Lithuanian, Hebrew and Yiddish with English narration
Directed by Saulius Berzinis
VHS
An overview of an academic conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the destruction of the Vilna Ghetto held in Vilna in 1993, this film opens with an overview of the history of Lithuania and the Jews of Lithuania. The production includes contemporary footage juxtaposed with historical film and photographs of the once vibrant Jewish community of Vilna.
Israel, 2006, 86 minutes, color
Directed by Hanan Peled
35mm
In Tel Aviv in the 1960s 10-year-old Hilik knows his goal in life is to compensate for the grief his parents suffered in the Holocaust. This fragile equilibrium begins to waver... More
USA, 1945, 22 minutes, B&W
Produced by the U.S. Department of War Information
16mm DVD VHS
Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder. The film includes accounts of the economic aspects of the camps' operation, the interrogation of captured camp personnel, and the enforced visits of the inhabitants of neighboring towns, who, along with the rest of their compatriots, are blamed for complicity in the Nazi crimes - one of the few such condemnations in the Allied war records. Nonetheless, in compliance with U.S. policy, the word 'Jew' is never used.
1994, 59 minutes, color
Directed by Mira Reym Binford
16mm DVD VHS
Thousands of Jewish children lived in the Polish city of Bendzin before the Nazi Holocaust. Barely a dozen survived the community's destruction. More
USA, 1929, 89 minutes, B&W
Directed by Alfred E. Green
16mm
George Arliss won an Oscar for his portrayal of the British Prime Minister as a great (and cunning) statesman and a devoted husband. Also stars Joan Bennett and Anthony Bushell.
Israel, 1992, 34 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Ayellet Menachemi
VHS
Originally presented as part of the acclaimed anthology film Tel Aviv Stories, this short satire addresses one of the most difficult and serious issues facing Israeli women today. When a policewoman (Anat Waxman) suddenly recognizes her husband who has been AWOL for years, she takes an odd assortment of local onlookers hostage, threatening to kill them if she is not issued a divorce immediately. An unusual look at the conflict between religious law and modern Jewish life.
USA, 1934, 66 minutes, B&W
Directed by A.J. Bloome for Palestine-American Film Co.
16mm VHS
An early travelogue on Palestine featuring the last appearance of Cantor Joseph (Yosselle) Rosenblatt. More
Israel, 1996, 50 minutes, B&W
Directed by Yaakov Gross
DVD
This historic document of Palestine during the tumultuous 1920s includes footage from three rare films by Ya'akov Ben Dov, the father of Hebrew cinema. More
Poland 1937 123 minutes B&W
Directed by Michal Waszynski for Feniks Production Company
35mm 16mm DVD VHS
Boundaries separating the natural from the supernatural dissolve as ill-fated pledges, unfulfilled passions and untimely deaths ensnare two families in a tragic labyrinth of spiritual possession. More
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Austria 1923 85 minutes B&W
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin and Ivan Abramson
16mm DVD
This delightful comedy opens as Morris Brown, a New Yorker better acquainted with his checkbook than his prayerbook, returns to Galicia with his very American daughter, Mollie (Molly Picon) for a family wedding. More
Israel, 1975, 91 minutes (originally 115 minutes), B&W
Directed by David Bergman
16mm
Written by Israeli soldier, poet and journalist Haim Gouri, this first of a trilogy constitutes one of the most ambitious attempts at a comprehensive film history of the Holocaust. More
France, 1991, 26 min, color (16mm)
Producer: Izza Genini
16mm VHS
The matrux is a unique form of Moroccan-Jewish music, fusing Hebrew and Arabic texts. The music and lyrics are derived from Andalusian traditions of music and poetry, reflecting the centuries-old link between Jewish and Muslim societies. More
USA, 1989, 119 minutes, color
Directed by Paul Mazursky
16mm
Based on the brilliant, enigmatic novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, this is a quietly haunting film about an aloof Jewish intellectual (Ron Silver) who managed to hide from the Nazis during WWII and now, in 1949, leads a double life in Coney Island, NY. He's married to his wartime (non-Jewish) protector (Margaret Sophie Stein) and fooling around with a sexy married Jewish woman (Lena Olin). Things get even more complicated when his first wife (Angelica Houston), thought dead in the Holocaust, returns.
Belgium, 1990, 95 minutes, color (16mm/video - 60 minute video version also available)
Directed by Diane Perelsztejn
35mm DVD VHS
In 1939, Jews lucky enough to escape the Nazis' reach in Europe had only one place in the world to go that didn't require an exit visa: Shanghai. More
Israel, 1996, 96 minutes, color
Directed by Igal Bursztyn
35mm
What would happen if philosopher Baruch Spinoza were to live in an apartment house in Hulon? More
USA, 1989, 58 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Abraham Ravett
16mm DVD VHS
Filmmaker Abraham Ravett attempts to reconcile issues in his life as the child of a Holocaust survivor in this experimental non-narrative film. More
USA, 1960, 212 minutes, color
Directed by Otto Preminger
16mm
Few motion pictures can approach the grandeur of this classic Hollywood epic adapted from Leon Uris' best-selling novel about the rebirth of a people and a nation. More
USA and Germany, 2001, 90 minutes, color
English and German with English subtitles
Directed by Peter Laufer and Jeff Kamen
DVD VHS
Jews are building thriving communities in Germany, the site of the fastest growing Jewish population outside of Israel. More
Canada, 1996, color, 60 minutes (video)
Directed by Simcha Jacobovici and Roger Pyke
Shot on location in Spain, Portugal, Israel, Canada and the United States, this documentary traces the descendants of Spanish Jews who were forced to either flee or convert to Catholicism after Queen Isabella's edict of 1492. More
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Russia, 1992, 27 minutes, B&W
Directed by Arkadiy Yakhnis
35mm VHS
This short documentary chronicles a 90 year old man's emigration to Israel from his native shtetl in Bessabaria. More
USA 1931 15 minutes B&W English, Hebrew, and Yiddish (no subtitles)
Producer: Sidney M. Goldin for Jacob Berkowitz
16mm VHS DVD
A seder in the midst of North American prosperity recalls traditional Passover celebrations in Russia (with the same cast enacting both scenes). More
USA, 1971, 181 minutes, color
Directed by Norman Jewison
16mm
This classic Hollywood musical is a rousing, colorful adaptation of Joseph Stein's hit play based on Sholem Aleichem's novel, "Tevye the Dairyman." More
Czechoslovakia, 1964, 100 m
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