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1) Tevye
Publisher
National Center for Jewish Film
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Yiddish
Description
Focuses on one of Tevye's daughters who loves a gentile. Tevye's paternal affection is placed in direct conflict with his deep commitment to religious tradition.
2) Avalon
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of several generations of a family, from the arrival of Jewish immigrant Sam Krichinsky in the suburb of Baltimore called Avalon, down through his children and grandchildren. The family goes from poverty to prosperity as the world changes around them, but their love and humor hold the family together.
3) Homicide
Series
Criterion collection volume 486
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Director-approved special edition, widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become.
Series
Studio classic volume 2
Language
English
Description
A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Jewish survival. From slavery to the loss of their homeland; from exile to anti-Semitism; from pogroms to near annihilation in the Holocaust, they managed to endure while so many communities have vanished. Spanning millennia, this history of the Jewish people explores how a small group who started as desert nomads overcame countless obstacles to survive to the present day.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the 350 year saga of immigrants who gradually wove themselves into the fabric of American life without abandoning their cherished traditions.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
On the day Adolf Hitler comes to power, the German-Jewish family Glickstein comes together for a family dinner. Most of them however don't take the Nazis seriously. When young Leah reveals her plans to emigrate from Berlin to Palestine, her family starts disputing. Her father Aaron can't see any reason to leave Germany. But when Michael, Leah's younger brother, indicates that he actually is an ardent admirer of the national socialist movement, the...
9) Incitement
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
Amir, a hot-headed political activist in Israel, becomes a dangerous extremist after hearing about the Oslo Accords in 1993. When he learns of an ancient Jewish law, he becomes convinced he must stop the signing of the peace treaty in order to bring salvation to his people--by murdering Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Critically acclaimed, this is the award winning true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 and learns to cope with their new life, and each other, on a remote farm in Kenya.
11) Invincible
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen version (1.85:first).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, an extraordinary tale of a simple Jewish man who rises from a life of obscurity to defend his heritage. With Hitler on the brink of power and the world on the road to war. A journey from a humble village in Poland to the giddy excesses of 1930's Berlin and the risks he took to fight for his people.
12) The dybbuk
Author
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
[Standard format].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a young maid is possessed by the soul of her deceased lover, a rabbi must exorcise the dybbuk and the young bride must choose a man she does not love or her dead lovers's spirit.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The documentary tells the story of a group of children from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia who were fortunate enough to escape the unfathomable horror of the genocide perpetrated against the Jewish people during WWII. They were saved by the Kindertransport, which took 10,000 children to the safety of England in the late 1930s. (The United States government, which could have sponsored a similar program, declined to do so.) Assuming that the broad...
14) The pianist
Language
English
Formats
Description
Loosely based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
15) Jojo Rabbit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
Publisher
Milestone Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (98 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Credited to the legendary (and imaginary) 1920s Soviet director, Yevgeny Antinov, the film was made by Eleanor Antin in 1991. This silent drama set in a Jewish shtetl was Antin's ₃love letter₄ to her mother, who had been an actress in the Yiddish theater. When a gypsy caravan and its lovely dancer (played by Antin herself) arrive in the village, the life of the shtetl dwellers including Zionists, religious zealots, socialists, and lovers is upended....
17) Shalom Taiwan
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The financial problems of a Jewish Community Center, in a small neighborhood in the city of Buenos Aires, are a nightmare for young Rabbi Aaron. Neither his industriousness nor optimism seem enough to repay the longstanding debt he owes. Threatened with the shutdown of his beloved Community Center, Rabbi Aaron embarks on a humorous and heartwarming journey to the Far East to attract donations.
18) Lodz Ghetto
Publisher
The Jewish Heritage Project
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Special collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Regarded as the most authentic film about the Jewish life within the Holocaust, this documentary uses the diaries of a single community to reveal the heroic struggle of 250,000 people trapped in the longest surviving Jewish community in Nazi Europe.
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Christina prepares her restaurant for Christmas, a DNA test reveals that she's Jewish! The discovery leads her to a new family and a new, unlikely romance over eight crazy nights.
20) The book thief
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
[English/Spanish/French version].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
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