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61) Carmel
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
From Israel's most important filmaker, Carmel is Amos Gitai's (Kadosh, Kippur) deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary techniques, Gitai links his family history to ancient history. Through exquisitely composed long takes, he re-enacts the Jewish-Roman wars that began in 66 A.D. , and contrasts them to the young soldiers enlisting in Israel's army today, including his own son, making...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When eleven-year-old Vanessa discovers an abandoned museum, she starts filling it with her own projects and art and memories, thinking maybe, if she can put them all together in just the right way, she can finally understand why she and her relationships are the way they are.
Publisher
LOGTV
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A Mentsh is a movie shot entirely in the Yiddish language. It’s set in the former multinational city of Lviv, Ukraine, and the first part of a planned Yiddish trilogy (Lviv, Tel Aviv, New York). Lviv was a centre of Jewish life for more than 600 years. During World War II this special culture was destroyed. 75 years after the beginning of the war, Boris Dorfman takes us on an oneiric trip to all the places of horror and hope reflecting the Jewish...
65) Hanukkah bear
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On the first night of Hanukkah, Old Bear wanders into Bubba Brayna's house and receives a delicious helping of potato latkes when she mistakes him for the rabbi. Includes a recipe for latkes.
Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a rift between the men and women in a devout community in Jerusalem in this rousing, good-hearted comedy. Awash with Jerusalem's distinctive glow, THE WOMEN'S BALCONY is a warm, poignant portrait of a modern community struggling to balance protocol with practical, progressive values - at once rebellious and respectful in spirit.. Nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Orna Banai) and Best Supporting...
67) Vienna prelude
Author
Series
Zion Covenant volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
68) The Matchmaker
Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele, a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a movie theater that shows only love stories, run by a family of seven Romanian dwarves in the seedy area by the port. Yankele introduces Arik to a new world, built on the ruins of an old one.. As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart through his work with Yankele, he...
69) For such a time
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A powerful retelling of the biblical story of Esther set during WWII: Blond and blue-eyed Jewess Hadassah Benjamin must save her people--even if she cannot save herself"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A startling exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Reflecting on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the blockbuster travelling exhibition called "Auschwitz," the Jewish history of the Chinese city of Harbin, and the little known "righteous-gentile" Varian Fry, Dara Horn challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, as emblematic of...
72) 24 Days
Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because he's Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".. Winner of the Lia Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival.. "As a suspenseful true crime story, 24 Days succeeds. As a warning against the ever present dangers of anti-Semitism, it is eloquent and disturbing." - The Boston Globe. "A real-life Taken. Tremendously...
Publisher
Maya Weinberg
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Avraham, Ziggy, Schreiber, and Robinson form the uncrowned governing council of the “Teheran Children”. The four represent 217 Holocaust orphans who are now bringing legal action against the State of Israel for monies received from Germany for their rehabilitation.. In their old age they have set out to battle the State of Israel—the state they dreamed of and established through their own hard work. The confrontation with the State, their former...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Best Documentary Prize at the Haifa International Film Festival, director Yael Reuveny's Farewell Herr Schwarz is a cinematic journey about buried family secrets, the Holocaust (from a third generation perspective) and how it is never too late to reclaim your heritage. Siblings Michla and Feiv'ke Schwarz survived the Holocaust but never reunited after the war. Michla moved to the soon-to-be-founded Jewish state in the Middle East and...
75) Aftermath
Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In this controversial Polish drama based on true historic events, brothers Jozek and Franek discover a secret and are forced to revise their perception of their father, family, neighbors, and the history of their nation.. Winner of Best Actor (Maciej Stuhr) and nominated for Best Film and Best Actress (Danuta Szaflarska) at the Polish Film Awards.. "With its slow-burn pacing and horrifying reveals, AFTERMATH remains a deeply compelling puzzle." -...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After seizing power, the Nazis began their crusade against Jews with discriminatory laws and the looting of property; they turned to violence openly in what has come to be known as Kristallnacht: the night of broken glass. In November 1938 German soldiers set on fire some 400 synagogues and destroyed 7,000 Jewish stores and businesses. More than 90 people were killed, 600 committed suicide, and over 26,000 men were deported to concentration camps....
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The only documentary on the Auschwitz Trial held in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, from 1963 to 1965. Based on 430 hours of original audiotapes, this production is an unparellel document of the first Auschwitz Trial. In one of the most significant trials in German legal history, 360 witnesses from 19 countries, including 211 Auschwitz survivors, confronted former members of Hitler's SS. The documentary also includes interviews with prosecutor Fritz...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
The only documentary on the Auschwitz Trial held in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, from 1963 to 1965. Based on 430 hours of original audiotapes, this production is an unparellel document of the first Auschwitz Trial. In one of the most significant trials in German legal history, 360 witnesses from 19 countries, including 211 Auschwitz survivors, confronted former members of Hitler's SS. The documentary also includes interviews with prosecutor Fritz...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
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