The Last Jewish Summer
Students in a secondary school in Antwerp (Belgium), researching about the fate of Jewish students expelled in 1942 from this school by the Nazis,.are confronted with family members of both Jewish Holocaust victims and N
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Students in a secondary school in Antwerp (Belgium), researching about the fate of Jewish students expelled in 1942 from this school by the Nazis,.are confronted with family members of both Jewish Holocaust victims and N
They say the personal is political, and it’s hard to find a story that represents that saying more than the story of Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Jewish teenager, who found himself in the middle of a historical even
The film is dedicated to the excavation and reburial of executed prisoners of the Daugavpils ghetto in the Pogulianka region (Latvia) in June 1989. This is documentary evidence of the discovery of mass graves from the ti
One of the first American film introductions to Israel, this vitally interesting country - both objective and thought-provoking. Philip Stapp's animation carries us back 3000 years into Biblical times. Modern photography
In 2004 Sheldon Oberman, a Jewish storyteller from Winnipeg, passed away. At his funeral the presiding Rabbi said that Sheldon’s spirit was with the congregants in the sanctuary. For filmmaker Saul Henteleff this was a
The classic conflict between the traditional Jewish way of life, and the modern life of the 20th century comes alive in this story of a young cantor who brings home a future bride, when he has already been betrothed by h
The documentary is dedicated to the painful issues of the Holocaust and the Riga Ghetto.
At a Jewish school camp in 2006, repressed teenager Tali finds a porn magazine hidden in a classmate’s prayer book and steals it. Between the pages and behind the closed doors of the girls’ cabin, she begins to question
Narrated by Isy Suttie (Peep Show, Pearl & Dave), the footage includes rare scenes of an Edwardian Petticoat Lane; a wedding in London’s East End in 1925; the defeat of the British Union of Fascists at Cable Street; Brit
Jewish-American history has been rooted in an ever-changing “Old Country”. Interviews with top scholars in Jewish history, notable Jewish-American writers, and many immigrants themselves detail the varied stories of migr
Documents the tragic history of an agrarian commune established in the Soviet Union during the Twenties.
A humorous and illuminating series of coffee klatches with 20 friends that proves the old adage, “Where you have two Jews, you have three opinions.” Ranging in age from 18 to 85, and in experience from greenhorn to Pulit
Key events of the war on Gaza have left their traces in this filmmaker's family history. When he arrives in Berlin, he learns to distrust his own perceptions.
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker is a humorous, no-holds-barred autobiographical film about the director’s former career as a sex worker and his relationship with his Jewish family. From graphic, erotic massages to a revealing
Coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, JEWISH SOLDIERS IN BLUE & GRAY is the first-of-its-kind film that reveals the little-known struggles facing Jewish Americans both in battle and on the home front du
Jewish cemetery in Riga, Latvia became a park in the 1960s. Now the park becomes a place for alcoholics and American tourists, but still he last witness of violent history. A film dedicated to Jewish community.
Marko Feingold used to say: “nothing can hurt those who already died once”. He himself had died several times over, as a survivor of four concentration camps: Auschwitz, Neuengamme, Dachau, and Buchenwald. From the momen
Morbidly Jewish is a fearless stand-up comedy special from Raanan Hershberg that takes on antisemitism, conspiracy theories, modern dogma, and the strange comfort people find in absolute certainty. With razor-sharp jokes
Nestler traces the history of Frankfurt’s Jewish ghetto from the middle ages to the present day.