Jewish Studies Library

Videos and DVD's held in The Jewish Studies Library, November, 2004

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All videotapes are 1/2" VHS
All DVD's and videotapes are with sound, mostly stereo, most are in color.
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DS119.75 .A26 1990 VIDEOTAPE
     About the United Nations [videorecording] : Palestine / produced by the United Nations, Department of Public Information & The Mosaic Group, Inc. York : United Nations Publications, c1990.
     1 videocassette (19 min.)
Jonathan Zachary.
Synopsis: Examines the Intifada, the Palestinian uprising in the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank & Gaza Strip, by investigating the historical background and by speaking to the people on both sides of the conflict.
Subjects: United Nations. Intifada, 1987- Jewish-Arab relations -- 1973- Palestinian Arabs -- Israel. Israel -- Politics and government. Video recording.

DS135 .E75 A44 1991 Videotape
     Again the second time [videorecording] / director, Micha Shagrir ; produced for United Jewish Appeal and Keren Hayesod United Israel Appeal by Communications Division Jewish Agency for Israel and WZO Department of Information ; producers, Avi Armoza, Allen Pakes -- Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media Inc., c1991.
     1 videocassette (19 min.)
Synopsis: Chronicles Operation Solomon ; the May, 1991 36-hour emergency airlift of 14,200 Ethiopian Jews from Addis Ababa to Israel.
Subjects: Operation Solomon, 1991. Jews, Ethiopian. Ethiopia -- Emigration and immigration. Israel -- Emigration and immigration.

PN1997 .A3136 1995
     Ahavatah ha-ahronah shel Lorah Adler [videorecording] = Laura Adler's last love affair -- Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media, c1995.
     1 videocassette (96 min.)
Hebrew and Yiddish with English subtitles.
Videorecording of film produced in 1990.
Rita Zohar, Shulamit Adar, Menashe Warshavski, Avraham Moor, Yacov Shapiro, Sally Anne Friedland.
Produced by Marek Rozenbaum ; written and directed by Avran Heffner ; music by Shem Tov Levy ; photography by David Gurkinkel.
Synopsis: Rita Zohar stars as Laura Adler, the "queen" of a shoestring Yiddish theater troupe. She is as deeply loved by her diminishing Yiddish speaking audience as she is by her colleagues. For a brief moment, Laura is on top of the world when she is offered a leading role in an international film and simultaneously has an explosive love affair with a total stranger. However, before her dreams can come to fruition, fate cruelly intervenes.
Subjects: Feature films. Motion pictures, Hebrew.

D810 .J4 A48 1993 Videotape
     America and the Holocaust [videorecording] : deceit and indifference / a Fine Cut Productions, Inc. ; WGBH Boston -- [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, c1993.
     1 videocassette (90 min.) + 1 discussion sheet in pocket.
Host, David McCullough.
Duration on container: 60 min.
Written, produced and directed by Martin Ostrow ; edited by Stephanie Munroe ; narrated by Hal Linden.
Originally broadcast as a segment of the television series The American experience.
Intended audience: junior and senior high students.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Synopsis: Uses interviews, official photos, home movies, and archival footage to explore the factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust and asks the question "Why didn't America do more?" Looks at America's inaction through the experiences of a Jewish refugee trying to save his parents, and through documented evidence of official policy of the U.S. government.
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- United States. World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Refugees, Jewish.

BM225.N5 A44 1999 Videotape
     America's first synagogues [videorecording] / produced for Odyssey by Centaur Communications and Mark Aaron Productions in association with Odyssey Productions, Ltd. -- Thousand Oaks, CA : Goldhil Video [distributor], c1999.
     1 videocassette (46 min.) (Landmarks of faith)
"A travelogue of American spirituality"--Container.
Hosted by Schuyler Sackett.
Synopsis: This historical series explores America's rich tapestry of religious beliefs by visiting the places where those faiths took root and grew. Presents the dramatic story of the Jewish pilgrims who founded Congregation Shearith Israel in 1654 in old New York and the Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I. in 1763.
Subjects: Congregation Shearith Israel (New York, N.Y.). Synagogues -- United States -- History. United States -- Religion. Documentary television programs. Judaism -- United States -- History.

D804.3 .A467 1994 Videotape
American experience (Television program)
     America and the holocaust [videorecording] : deceit and indifference / a Fine Cut Productions, Inc. film ; written, produced and directed by Martin Ostrow -- [Shanachie, N.J.] : Shanachie Home Video, c1994.
     1 videocassette (90 min.)
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
David McCullough.
Narrated by Hal Linden.
Editor, Stephanie Munroe ; series editors, Llewellyn Smith, Jane Feinberg ; senior producer, Margaret Drain ; executive producer, Judy Crichton.
Originally broadcast as a television program on PBS.
Synopsis: Uses interviews, official photos, home movies, and archival footage to explore the factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust and asks the question "Why didn't America do more?" Looks at America's inaction through the experiences of a Jewish refugee trying to save his parents, and through documented evidence of official policy of the U.S. government.
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- United States. World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. Refugees, Jewish. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

PN1995.9 .Y54 A43 1986 VIDEOTAPE
     Americaner Schadchen = Amerikaner Schadkhen / Fame Films ; Edgar G. Ulmer Production. I Want to be a boarder = Ikh vil zayn a border / Joseph Seiden ; Jewish Talking Picture Co. [videorecording] -- Waltham, MA : The Rutenberg and Everett Yiddish Film Library of the National Center for Jewish Film, c1986.
     1 videocassette (102 min.)
At beginning of film: American matchmaker.
Yiddish, with English subtitles.
Americaner Schadchen: Leo Fuchs, Judith Abarbanel, Judel Dubinsky, Anna Guskin, Celia Boodkin.
I want to be a boarder: Leo Fuchs, Yetta Zwerling.
Americaner schadchen: producer/director, Edgar G. Ulmer; story, G. Heimo; screenplay, S. Castle; director of photography J. Burgi Contner; camera, E. Hyland; sound D. Cole; editor, Hans E. Mandl; composer and conductor, Sam Morgenstern. I want to be a boarder: producer/director, Joseph Seiden.
Americaner Schadchen originally released as a motion picture in 1940 and restored in 1975.
I want to be a boarder originally released as a motion picture in 1937 and restored in 1975.
Synopsis: Two films which address the Americanization of Jewish immigrants in the first half of the 20th century. Americaner Schadchen (87 min.) is the story of second-generation American Jewish immigrants involved in a matchmaking business. I want to be a boarder (15 min.) is a comedy about a husband and wife who pretend to be landlady and tenant when the husband announces he wants a divorce.
Subjects: Feature films. Short films. Comedy films. Motion pictures, Yiddish.

PN1997 .A468 2000 DVD
     Annie Hall [videorecording] / United Artists -- Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, 2000
     1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. (Woody Allen collection)
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Janet Margolin, Shelley Duvall, Christopher Walken, Colleen Dewhurst.
Screenplay, Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman; director, Woody Allen ; producer, Charles H. Joffe ; director of photography, Gordon Willis ; edited by Ralph Rosenblum.
A Jack Rollins-Charles H. Joffe motion picture production originally made for United Artists in 1977.
Special feature original theatrical trailer.
Dolby digital sound; widescreen and standard version screen formats.
Rated PG.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Dialogue in English, with optional French soundtrack, and optional English, French and Spanish subtitles.
Synopsis: Woody Allen's semiautobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. Allen uses satire and comedy to portray this "nervous romance" for modern times.
Subjects: Feature films. Comedy films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

DS126.6 .A67 A67 2001 Videotape
     Arafat, in his own words, 1995-2000 [videorecording] / produced by Peace for Generations and One Jerusalem -- Union, NJ : Peace for Generations, 2001.
     1 videocassette (7 min.)
Narrator, Jonathan Bryce.
In Arabic with English subtitles.
Synopsis: Discusses Arafat's role in the Middle East conflict.
Subjects: Arafat, Yasir, 1929-. Palestinian National Authority. Palestinian Arabs. Arab-Israeli conflict. Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-

F395 .J5 A7 1996
     At home on the range [videorecording] : Jewish life in Texas : beyond the big cities -- New York, NY : Apple West Productions, 1996.
     1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. ; VHS format.
Produced and directed by Brian Cohen; presenting station, KEDT-South Texas Public Broadcasting.
"This program was made possible by a major grant from the Texas Jewish Historical Society."
Premiered on PBS Sept. 16th, 1996.
Synopsis: Explores the Jewish communities which developed in the small towns and rural areas of Texas.
Subjects: Jews -- Texas -- History. Texas -- Ethnic relations.

PJ4535 .B37 1985 VIDEOTAPE
     Basic Hebrew 1 & 2 [videorecording] / curriculum developed by Rachel C. Sarna, Aharon Komem -- New York, N.Y. : Arta Films, c1985.
     2 videocassettes (141 min.)
Lessons.
In Hebrew.
Lessons presented by Dr. Rachel Sarna and Dr. Aharon Komem.
Contents: Part 1 (81 min.): The alphabet, pronouns, days of the week, the daily schedule, the family circle, transportation, the four seasons, months of the year. Part 2 (60): Holidays, opposites, in the restaurant, the human body, in the supermarket, clothing, the verb (review)
Synopsis: Basic Hebrew is an introductory course to the Hebrew language. This video program is designed to teach Hebrew as a second language using videocassette recorder. It is suitable for use by individuals, community organizations, universities and schools. No previous knowledge of Hebrew is required.
Subjects: Hebrew language -- Study and teaching.

BM729 .P7 B37 1987 VIDEOTAPE
     Bat Sarah [videorecording] : Jews by choice -- [Berkeley, CA] : Ain Sof Productions [producer] : The Acquarian Minyan [distributor], c1987.
     1 videocassette
Synopsis: Nine women who meet at Nishmat Kol Chai, the first west coast Jewish women's spirituality conference, held in Dorena, Oregon, discuss their spiritual quest and their conversion to Judaism.
Subjects: Proselytes and proselyting, Jewish. Jewish women -- United States -- Religious life.

D805 .G3 B467 2003 DVD
     Berga [videorecording] : soldiers of another war / a co-production of Guggenheim Productions Inc. and Thirteen/WNET New York ; written, directed and narrated by Charles Guggenheim -- Burbank, CA : PBS DVD Video : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2003.
     1 videodisc (90 min.)
Dolby surround stereo.
Closed-captioned.
Producer, Grace Guggenheim ; director of photography, Erich Roland ; editor, Anny Lowery Meza ; composer, Michael Bacon.
Not rated.
Title from container.
Bonus DVD features: a conversation with Charles Guggenheim and David McCullough ; interview outakes from Berga : soldiers of another war ; selected works by Charles Guggenheim.
Synopsis: This film reveals the little known story of Berga. In December 1944, thousands of American prisoners were transported to Stalag 9B. The Nazi guards asked all the Jews to identify themselves. When no one responded they chose soldiers that "looked Jewish" or had "Jewish-sounding" names, and shipped them off to Berga, a satellite camp to the infamous Buchenwald. These Americans suffered the same as all the other Jews in the camp.
Subjects: Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Berga (Concentration camp) World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
http://www.gpifilms.com/berga.html
Link: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/berga/stories/

DS119.7 .B4437 2001 Videotape
     Bethlehem diary [videorecording] / a film by Antonia Caccia -- Brooklyn, New York : First Run/Icarus Films, 2001.
     1 videocassete (60 min.)
Produced and directed by Antonia Caccia.
Synopsis: The streets of Bethlehem have been deserted, the hotels and shops are empty, it is Christmas in Bethlehem, 2000. The Israeli army has closed off Bethlehem since the 2nd Intifada began. This video focuses on two Palestinian families and a human rights lawyer during this tumultuous period.
Subjects: Palestinian Arabs. Arab-Israeli conflict.

PN1997 .B67525 1987 Videotape
     Bluz la-hofesh ha-gadol [videorecording] = Late summer blues / Blues Productions -- [s.l.] : Home Vision ; Public Media Incorporated (distributor), c1987.
     1 videocassette (101 min.)
Videocassette release of the 1987 motion picture.
Original story by Renen Schorr.
In Hebrew with English subtitles.
Producers, Dor Zweigenbom and Shahar Segal ; director, Renen Schorr ; screenplay, Doron Nesher ; music, Rafi Kadishzon.
Dor Zweigenbom, Yoav Tsafir, Shahar Segal, Noa Goldberg.
Synopsis: Students are on summer break between their final exams and their induction into the Israeli army. When the first of their friends to be inducted is killed, the students turn their graduation play into an anti-war statement.
Subjects: War films. Motion pictures, Israeli. Israel -- History -- Drama.

PN1997 .C2573 1989 VIDEOTAPE
     The Cantor's son [videorecording] -- Teaneck, N.J. : Ergo Media Inc., 1989.
     1 videocassette (90 min.)
Moishe Oysher, Florence Weiss.
Directed by Sidney Goldin & Ilya Motyleff ; produced by Arthur Block & Samuel M. Segal ; screenplay by Mark Schweid from a story by Louis Freiman ; music by Alexander Olshanetsky.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1937.
Synopsis: A young man, cafe singer by day and synagogue cantor at night, rejoins his elderly parents in his European birthplace to participate in their golden wedding anniversary festivities. Complications frustrate a budding romance with his childhood sweetheart.
Subjects: Jews -- Drama. Feature films.

PN1995.9 .J46 C37 1999 Videotape
     Catskill honeymoon & 5 shorts [videorecording] -- Brooklyn, N.Y. : Yiddish Film Classics : Miriam/Lillian Films ; Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, 1999?
     1 videocassette (100 min.)
First three films in Yiddish and English, with incomplete or no English subtitles; fourth film in Yiddish with English subtitles; fifth film in English.
Title from cassette label.
Eili, Eili: sung by Charles Carlile ; organist, Lew White.
Catskill honeymoon: Michal Michalesko, Jan Bart, Bas Sheva, Cookie Bowers, Al Murray, Max Bozhyk, Rose Bozhyk, Bobby Colt, Feder Sisters, Julius Adler.
I want to be a boarder: Leo Fuchs, Yetta Zwerling.
Catskill honeymoon: photography, Charles Downs ; editor, Jack Kemp ; music and lyrics, Hy Jacobson.
Originally produced between 1934 and the 1980's.
Dance festival in Carmiel is in color.
Contents: Billy Shepard sings A yiddishe Momme (4 min.) -- Eili, Eili / Master Art Products (8 min.) -- Catskill honeymoon / Martin Cohen Enterprises ; produced by Martin Cohen ; directed by Joe Berne ; dialogue by Jobl Jacobson (65 min.) -- I want to be a boarder = Ikh vil zayn a border / produced by Jewish Talking Picture Co. ; Joseph Seiden presents (15 min.) -- Dance festival in Carmiel / director, Jachim Hirsch (12 min.)
Synopsis: The first two films are musical performances; in Catskill honeymoon, filmed on location at Young's Gap Hotel in Parksville, N.Y., a couple is celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary and the hotel puts on a musical and comedy revue in their honor; I want to be a boarder is a comedy skit about a husband and wife who try to live together and landlady and boarder; Dance festival in Carmiel is a documentary.
Subjects: Short films. Musical films. Motion pictures, Yiddish. Jews -- New York (State) -- Catskill Mountains Region -- Drama. Summer resorts -- New York (State) -- Catskill Mountains Region -- Drama. Dance festivals -- Israel -- Karmiel.

DS119.7 .C463 1993 Videotape
     A Chance for peace [videorecording] : a sign of hope in the Middle East / Cable News Network, Inc. -- [Atlanta, Ga.] : CNN Video, c1993.
     1 videocassette (60 min.) (CNN special reports)
Synopsis: The CNN documentary team reports on the background of the hatred and distrust between Arab and Israeli, the breakthrough in the negotiations between the PLO and Israel, and the signing of the accord that promise to bring peace to the Middle East.
Subjects: Jewish-Arab relations. Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1945-. Documentary television programs.

D810.J4 C465 1998 Videotape
     Children in the Holocaust [videorecording] / producer, Joseph S. Kutzreba ; directors, Jack Eisner, Roman Kent -- Columbus, OH : University Technology Services, Ohio State University, 1998.
     1 videocassette (70 min.)
Narrator, Liv Ullmann.
Issued also as motion picture.
Issued as a U-matic 3/4 in. reformatted to VHS 1/2 in. at the Ohio State University.
Contents: Examines the plight of Jewish children during the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of those children who survived. Includes footage of the Warsaw ghetto, the cattle cars used to transport people to the death camps, and Auschwitz. Also includes interviews with adults who recall from their childhood memories the intense anti-Semitic mood of prewar eastern Europe, Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, the crowding of Jews into the Warsaw ghetto, and the struggle to survive in the concentration camps.
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). Jewish children. Antisemitism -- Poland. World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps. Poland -- Ethnic relations.

DS135 .P62 W2724 Videotape
     Children must laugh [videorecording] -- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, 1993.
     1 videocassette (94 min.)
Title on container: Mir kumen an = Mir kumen on [romanized]
English and Yiddish with English subtitles.
Originally released in 1938.
Producer, Medem Sanatorium ; director, Aleksander Ford for the Jewish Labor Bund ; cinematography, Stanislaw Lipinski.
Synopsis: One of the few surviving documentaries depicting pre-war Jewish life in Poland and life at the Jewish Labor Bund's Medem Sanatorium, a model residential children's institution. The Medem Sanatorium, which existed from 1926 through 1942, stood as a symbol of health and enlightenment.
Subjects: Sanatorium Medem (Miedzeszyn, Warsaw, Poland). Sanatoriums -- Poland -- Warsaw. Jewish children -- Poland -- Warsaw. Children -- Hospitals -- Poland -- Warsaw. Jews -- Poland -- History -- 20th century. Jewish children -- Institutional care -- Poland -- Warsaw. Miedzeszyn (Warsaw, Poland). Documentary films.

PS3566 .O69 C5 1983 Videotape
     The Chosen [videorecording] / Twentieth Century-Fox Corporation -- Farmington Hill, MI : CBS/FOX Video, c1983.
     1 videocassette (107 min.)
Rated PG.
From the novel by Chaim Potok.
Videocassette release of the 1982 motion picture by Twentieth Century-Fox Corporation.
Executive producer, Jonathan Bernstein ; producers, Edie & Ely Landau ; screenplay, Edwin Gordon ; director, Jeremy Paul Kagan ; music, Elmer Bernstein.
Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson, Barry Miller.
Synopsis: Two teenagers at the time of the Normandy invasion in 1944 are friends but they are divided by the same thing that unites them--their faith. Though both are devout Jews, there's a subtle difference. Danny is an Hasidic Jew, brought up to accept faith blindly by his father--an ultra-orthodox rabbi who rejects the 20th century for the special joys of centuries--old tradition. Reuven, on the other hand, has been brought up by his father who is a secular scholar, to question everything around him.

BM707 .C651988 VIDEOTAPECASS ETTE
     Coming of age [videorecording] : adult Bat mitzvah / produced by Bonnie Burt -- Freehold, New Jersey : Alden Films, c1988.
     1 videocassette
Camera, editing, Bonnie Burt ; lighting, sound, Stu Sweetow ; post production, Michael Brand, Dominica Kriz.
Synopsis: History and rituals of the Bat mitzvah; also follows the progress of a group of adult women in the U.S. about to participate in a B'not Mitzvah on June 1, 1985.
Subjects: Bat mitzvah -- History. Bat mitzvah. Confirmation (Jewish rite)

DS145 .C66 1989 VIDEOTAPE
     Confronting anti-semitism [videorecording] : a how-to for Jewish youth / produced by Intergroup Relations Division of the Anti-Defamation Leage of B'nai B'rith ; Zirel Handler, producer -- New York, N.Y. : Anti-Defamation Leage of B'nai B'rith, 1989.
     1 videocassette (6 min., 40 sec.) + 1 guide ([8] p. ; 22 cm.)
Executive producer, Ahan Bayer ; written by Leslie "Cookie" Hoberman and Hope Horan ; Frances Sonnenschein, education consultant ; theatrical direction by Tom Neuman.
"Television production KMTV."
"The production is based on a project developed in Nebraska by The ADL/Jewish Federation of Omaha with founding by Esther K. Newman Foundation."
Guide prepared by Frances M. Sonnenschein.
Synopsis: Presents five scenarios of anti-Semitic incidents involving Jewish adolescents; suggests several different responses and provides time for discussion.
Subjects: Antisemitism -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States -- Audio-visual aids. Jewish youth -- Social conditions -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States -- Audio-visual aids. Jewish youth -- Identity -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States -- Audio-visual aids. Discrimination -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States -- Audio-visual aids.

DS145 .C65 1989 VIDEOTAPE
     Confronting anti-semitism [videorecording] : a family awareness project / with Dale V. Atkins ; produced by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith ; Oren Rudavsky, director -- New York, N.Y. : Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, c1989.
     1 videocassette (8 min.) + 1 guide ([8] p. ; 22 cm.)
Dale V. Atkins.
Camera, Oren Rudavsky ; Carol Hantman, writer.
Guide prepared by Pearl Tendler and edited by Frances M. Sonnenschein.
Synopsis: Presents enactments of anti-Semitic incidents involving Jewish adolescents; designed to facilitate communication within families about anti-Semitism and to help devise effective responses to anti-Semitic incidents.
Subjects: Antisemitism -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Audio-visual aids. Antisemitism -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States -- Audio-visual aids. Jews -- Social conditions -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Audio-visual aids. Jewish youth -- Identity -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States -- Audio-visual aids. Discrimination -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States -- Audio-visual aids.

PN2287 .B97 A33 1991 Videotape
     A Conversation with George Burns [videorecording] -- Teaneck, N. J. : Ergo Media, 1991.
     1 videocassette (27 min.)
Executive producers: Marilyn Hall and Rabbi Daniel Syme ; Producer: Richard Hall ; Director: Ron Wolotzsky.
Synopsis: George Burns reminisces about his life and career, both of which began on the Lower East Side at the turn of the century.
Subjects: Burns, George, 1896-. Comedians -- United States -- Biography.

PN1997 .D35 1990 Video, tape
     A Day in Warsaw [videorecording] / presented by Yitzhak Goskind -- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, c1990.
     1 videocassette (10 min., 32 sec.)
Yiddish narration, English subtitles.
Asher Lerner.
Text, Asher Lerner ; photography, V. Kazimierczak.
"Preservation and restoration ... the National Center for Jewish Film."
"The Rutenberg and Everett Yiddish Film Library."
Originally produced as a motion picture by Sektor Films, Warsaw,Poland, 1938.
Synopsis: A portrayal of Warsaw, Poland in 1938, emphasizing the buildings, institutions and neighborhoods associated with the 400,000 Jews living in Warsaw at that time.
Subjects: Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw. Warsaw (Poland) -- Description and travel.

BM487 .D4 1993 Videotape
     The Dead sea scrolls [videorecording] / [produced by] the Biblical Archaeology Society -- Washington, D.C. : Biblical Archaeology Society, 1993.
     6 videocassettes (360 min)
Executive producer, Hershel Shanks ; producers, Adam Kulakow and Susan Laden ; director, Russell Slayden.
Contents: pt. 1. The secret of the caves: discoveries and controversies / Ronald S. Hendel -- pt. 2. Qumran and the text of the Hebrew bible / Ronald S. Hendel -- pt. 3. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the early Christian church / James C. VanderKam -- pt. 4. Living at the end of time: the beliefs of an apocalyptic community / Ronald S. Hendel -- pt. 5. The rewritten bible at Qumran / Sidnie A. White -- pt. 6. Reconstructing the dead sea scrolls: computers and concordances / Martin G. Abegg.
Subjects: Dead Sea scrolls.

DS135 .I8 D43 1995 Videotape
     A Debt to honor [videorecording] / a production of Documentaries International Film & Video Foundation ; written, produced, and directed by Sy Rotter -- Washington, D.C. : The Foundation, c1995.
     1 videocassette (30 min.) + 1 discussion guide.
Some segments dubbed into English.
Narrated by Alan Alda ; voices: Frank Buckley, Jill Holmes, Ginger Moss, Jim Parisi.
Original music by Daniel Palmieri ; prepared in collaboration with Dr. Maria Lombardo.
On container: original music by Daniel(e) Palmieri.
Synopsis: It presents historical evidence of how individuals reacted to their perception of injustice. It focuses on interviews with Italian priests and nuns and with other Italians who speak of their direct involvement in the rescue and safety they extended to Italian and refugee Jewish fugitives.
Subjects: Jews -- Persecutions -- Italy. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Italy. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Italy. Italy -- Ethnic relations.

PN1997 .D5 1991 VIDEOTAPE
     The Dybbuk [videorecording] = Der Dibuk / Feniks Production Company -- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Films, c1991.
     1 videocassette (123 min.)
"The Rutenberg & Everett Yiddish Film Library of the National Center for Jewish Film."--container cover.
A restored Yiddish film with complete, new English subtitles.
Producer, Ludwig Prywes ; director, Michal Waszynski ; screenplay, Alter Kacyzne, Andrzej Marek ; music, Henoch Kahn ; choreographer, Judith Berg.
Avrom Marevsky, Isaac Semberg, Lili Liliana, Leon Liebgold, Moyshe Lipman, Dina Halpern, G. Lemberger.
Videocassette release of the 1937 Polish motion picture.
Based upon the play by Shalom Anski.
Synopsis: Years after their parents had made a pledge that they would marry, a young couple meet and fall in love. The father of the young man had long before perished and the young woman's father, forgetting his vow, keeps the two apart. The film concerns unfulfilled love, broken promises, and the supernatural, as the persona of the youth enters his beloved's body and possesses her.
Subjects: Feature films.

PN1995.9 .Y54 M59 1991 VIDEOTAPE
     [Mizreh un Mayrev]
     East and west [videorecording] = Mizreh un Mayrev / Listo/Picon Films ; directed by Sidney M. Goldin -- [1991 restored version] -- [Waltham, MA] : The National Center for Jewish Film, c1991.
     1 videocassette (85 min.)
"Austrian title: Ost und West"
"The Rutenberg & Everett Yiddish Film library of The National Center for Jewish Film presents..."--Contain.
Film originally produced in Austria in 1923; film restored in 1982; new musical score added in 1991.
Subtitles are in English and Yiddish.
Molly Picon, Jacob Kalish, Sidney M. Goldin, Saul Nathan, Laura Glucksman, Eugen Newfeld, Johannes Roth.
Score produced and developed by Henry Sapoznik; arranged and performed by Peter Sokolow.
Synopsis: In a comedic film about assimilation and Jewish values, sophisticated New Yorker Morris Brown travels back to his village to attend his niece's traditional wedding. There he encounters the rambunctious Mollie, whose hijinks include boxing, and teaching other young villagers to shimmy. Mollie meets her match, however, in an engaging young yeshiva scholar who forsakes tradition and joins the secular world to win her heart.
Subjects: Motion pictures, Yiddish. Silent films. Feature films. Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Drama.

JC591 .E34 1987 VIDEOTAPE
     Echoes of a nightmare [videorecording] / film by Mitchell Holzman and Abraham Holtz -- Clarksburg, NJ : Alden Films, c1987.
     1 videocassette (26 min.)
Photographed by Christopher Zizzo ; sound by John McCormick, Betty Brown ; editing and additional photography, Abraham Holtz.
Synopsis: Protrays the Neo-Nazi movement in Skokie, Marquette and Chicago, Illinois, particularly plans to march through a neighborhood populated by Jewish survivors of WWII concentration camps.
Subjects: Freedom of speech -- Illinois. Nazis -- Civil rights -- Illinois. Holocaust survivors -- Civil rights -- Illinois.

DS135 .E8 E3 1991 Videotape
     Echoes that remain [videorecording] / written by Rabbi Marvin Hier ; adapted for the screen by Arnold Schwartzman ; original music score by Carl Davis -- [Los Angeles, CA] : Simon Wiesenthal Center, 1991.
     1 videorecording (60 min.)
Director, Arnold Schwartzman ; editor, Roy Watts ; producers,
Arnold Schwartzman, Rabbi Marvin Hier ; cinematographer, Michael Anderson.
Martin Landau, Miriam Margolyes.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; Carl Davis, conductor.
Synopsis: A study of Jewish Shtetl life before the Holocaust. Combines hundreds of rare archival photos and previously unseen film footage, with live action sequences shot on location at the sites of former Jewish communities in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
Subjects: Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century. Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.

D804.3 .W542 2002 DVD
     Elie Wiesel goes home [videorecording] / [a Panorama Entertainment release] ; directed by Judit Elek ; produced by Sandor Simo, Pierre Marmiesse ; producers, Sandor Simo ... [et al.] -- [Beverly Hills, Calif.?] : Choices, c2002.
     1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.)
Narrator, William Hurt.
Music, Laszlo Melis ; director of photography, Gabor Balog ; editor, Judit Elek.
Special features: interview with Marvin Hier; interview with Bernard Goldberg.
Videodisc release of a 1996 motion picture.
"The texts in the film are excerpts of the works of Elie Wiesel"--Container.
Synopsis: Elie Wiesel returns to the village of his birth and to Auschwitz and Birkenau, the camps where he was interned during WWII.
Subjects: Wiesel, Elie, 1928- Holocaust survivors. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Biographical films.
http://www.crimsonbird.com/cgi_bin/a.cgi?j=B000067JBC

D805 .P7 E74 2000z DVD
     Escape from Sobibor [videorecording] : true life escape from a Nazi death camp! -- [S.l.] : Leisure Entertainment, [2000?]
     1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from disc surface.
"Digital gold collection"--Container.
Originally released in 1987.
Rutger Hauer, Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula.
Based on the book by Richard Rashke ; directed by Jack Gold ; screenplay by Reginald Rose.
Synopsis: True story of the mass escape of Jewish prisoners from the Nazi death camp at Sobibor, Poland.
Subjects: Sobibor (Concentration camp) -- Drama. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Drama. Historical films. Feature films.

D805 .P7 E74 2003 DVD
     Escape from Sobibor [videorecording] / a Rule/Starger Production in association with Zenith Productions -- Woodland Hills, CA : Westlake Entertainment Group, [2003?]
     1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Based on the book by Richard Rashke.
Alan Arkin, Rutger Hauer, Joanna Pacula, Hartmut Becker, Jack Shepherd ; narrator, Howard K. Smith.
Director of photography, Ernie Vincze ; film editor, Keith Palmer ; music, Georges Delerue ; technical consultants, Thomas Blatt, Stanislaw Szmajzner, Esther Terner-Raab ; produced by Dennis E. Doty ; teleplay by Reginald Rose ; directed by Jack Gold.
Originally released in 1987.
Special features: scene menu; biographies.
Synopsis: True story of the mass escape of Jewish prisoners from the Nazi death camp at Sobibor, Poland.
Subjects: Sobibor (Concentration camp) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Drama. Historical films. Feature films.

DS146 .G4 E84 1996 Videotape
     Der Ewige Jude [videorecording] / ein dokumentarischer Film der D.F.G. [Deutsche Filmherstellungs und Vertriebs G.m.b.H.] nach einer Idee von Dr. E. Taubert ; Gestaltung, Fritz Hippler -- Burbank, CA : Hollywood's Attic, 1996, [1940?]
     1 videocassette (70 min.)
Title on container: Eternal Jew.
In German.
Camera, A. Endrejat [et al.] ; editing, Hans Dieter Schiller & Albert Baumeister ; music, Franz R. Friedl.
Synopsis: An anti-Semitic propaganda film produced in 1938.
Subjects: Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945. Antisemitism -- Germany. Motion pictures, German. Documentary films -- Germany.

DS111.7 .E9 2000 Videotape
     Excavating the Bible [videorecording] / a co-production by Biblical Productions & PowerSports Millennium ; produced by Sharon Shaveet -- Thousand Oaks, CA : Goldhil Video, [c2000]
     3 videocassettes (165 min.)
Narrator, Reuven D. Miller; series director, Mossek Nissim; executive producer, Tal Doan McAbian.
Public performance video.
Contents: v. 1. Deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls / written by Daniel Cohen, Nissim Mossek -- v. 2. Marine archeology ; Tel Hazor, searching for biblical proofs / written by David C. Lewis -- v. 3. The ancient tunnels of Jerusalem ; The mysterious mosaic of Galilee / written by David C. Lewis.
Synopsis: Biblical archeologists have come to the Holy Land with the hope of finding clues to unravel perplexing questions about events in the Bible.
Subjects: Bible -- Antiquities. Archaeology -- Palestine.

PN1997 .F563 1991 VIDEOTAPE
     Fishke der krumer [videorecording] = The Light ahead/Fishke the lame / Cinema Repertory ; directed by Edgar G. Ulmer; associate producer, Peter E. Kassler -- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, [1991]
     1 videocassette (94 min.)
Added title frames: Fishka der krimmer.
Isidore Cashier, Helen Beverley, David Opatoshu.
Original production: screenplay, Sherle and Edgar G. Ulmer; editor, Jack Kemp; camera, J. Burgi Contner, Edward Hyland; sound, N. Dean Cole; adaptation & dialogue, Chaver Paver. Film restoration: director, Henry Felt; producer, Sharon Pucker Rivo.
Originally produced as a motion picture by Carmel Productions and released by Ultra Film Distributors in 1939.
"The 1982 restored [film] production, the National Center for Jewish Film in association with American Jewish Historical Society and Brandeis University."
"The Rutenberg & Everett Yiddish Film Library of the National Center for Jewish Film"--Container.
Yiddish dialogue, English subtitles.
Synopsis: A film adaptation (made to allay Jewish fears in 1939) of two Yiddish stories by S.Y. Abramovitsh [Mendele Mokher Sefarim] which discuss the fate of East European Jews in tsarist Russia. The innocent, impoverished lovers, lame Fishke and blind Hodel, are beset by the superstition, prejudice and greed present in a late nineteenth century shtetl in tsarist Russia. The benevolent and enlightened bookseller Mendele helps and encourages them in their dream of escaping to a freer life in Odessa. The character of Mendele, a precursor of Sholom Aleichem's Tevye, is loosely based on Abramovitsh himself.
Subjects: Jews -- Soviet Union -- Drama. Feature films.

BM700 .F67 1988 VIDEOTAPE
     The four sons [videorecording] : a Guide to Passover / WJUF ; [Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago] -- Teaneck, NJ : C. Ergo Media, 1988.
     1 videorecording (37 min.) + 1 study guide (16 p.) (Jewish home video) ; VHS format.
Theodore Bikel.
Producer, Mike Leiderman ; director, H.C. Whiteley.
Synopsis: With the help of Manny, (Theodore Bikel), and his wife, three brothers learn the methods and significance of Passover and how to prepare the traditional Seder without the help of their parents.
Subjects: Judaism -- Customs and practices. Passover -- Customs and practices.

D810.J4 F773 1998 Videotape
     From dust and ashes [videorecording] : survivors, scholars, and clergy confront the Holocaust / Kent State University, Audio-Visual Services ; producer, director, Jim Spear -- Columbus, OH : University Technology Services, Ohio State University, 1998.
     1 videocassette (59 min.) + 1 guide (11 p. ; 23 cm.)
Accompanied by guide: D810J4F773Videotape.
Ages 14 through adult.
Issued also as motion picture.
Issued as a U-matic 3/4 in. reformatted to VHS 1/2 in. at the Ohio State University.
Synopsis: Documents a conference on the Holocaust that was organized by two Kent State University professors. The conference's addresses and seminars are interwoven with testimonies from survivors, visuals, and commentary from newsman Frank Reynolds.
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Congresses.

D810 .J4 F776 1998 Videotape
     From out of the ashes [videorecording] / Lefkowitz Productions ; filmmaker, Ruth Lefkowitz -- Columbus, OH : University Technology Services, Ohio State University, 1998.
     1 videocassette (30 min.)
Issued as a U-matic 3/4 in. reformatted to VHS 1/2 in. at the Ohio State University.
Synopsis: A documentary filmed on location in Israel during the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, where 5,000 survivors came to search for relatives and friends. The program seeks to redefine the image of Holocaust survivors, emphasizing their lively spirits and many contributions to society.
Subjects: World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (1981 : Jerusalem). Holocaust survivors -- Congresses. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

DS109.86 .K64 F76 1995 video,tape
     From Vienna to Jerusalem [videorecording] : The century of Teddy Kolleck / AVA Productions -- Teaneck, N.J. : Ergo Media, c1995.
     1 videocassette (60 mins.) (Willy Lindwer collection)
Alternate titles: Century of Teddy Kolleck, Willy Lindwer collection : From Vienna to Jerusalem : The century of Teddy Kolleck.
Written, produced and directed by Willy Lindwer ; Research & production: Miriam Lindwer.
Synopsis: Almost synonomous with Jerusalem is the name Teddy Kollek, Jerusalem's mayor from 1965-1993. This video traces the life and achievements of the man who fostered the development of Jerusalem from a small divided town into a thriving modern capital.
Subjects: Kollek, Teddy, 1911- Jerusalem -- Biography. Mayors -- Jerusalem -- Biography. Documentary films.

DS109 .G34 1996 Videotape
     The Gates of Jerusalem [videorecording] / produced by Questar Video, Inc. -- Chicago, IL : Questar Home Video, c1996.
     2 videocassettes (ca. 120 min.)
Not rated.
Narrated by Richard Kiley.
Synopsis: The documentary traces the history of the most troubled and the most revered city in the world from Abraham to modern time.
Subjects: Documentary films. Jerusalem -- Gates. Jerusalem -- Antiquities. Jerusalem -- History. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

TX747 .G45 1987 VIDEOTAPE
     Gefilte fish [videorecording] -- Teaneck, N.J. : Ergo Media Inc., c1987.
     1 videocassette (VHS) (15 min.)
Produced, directed and edited by Karen Silverstein.
Interviewees, Elizabeth Silverstein, Marcee Silverstein, Jill Silverstein-Newman.
"A film about an endangered species -- the homemade gefilte fish. A documentary by Karen Silverstein" -- Container.
Synopsis: A light-hearted look at the way three different generations of women prepare the traditional delicacy. Provides cooking instructions and chuckles, as well as a short examination of the ways people try to reconcile tradition with modern life.
Subjects: Cookery (Fish) -- Social aspects. Cookery (Fish)

BS1235.2 .G46 1996 Videotape
     [Genesis (Television program)]
     Genesis [videorecording] : a living conversation / Public Affairs Television, Inc. ; produced and directed by Catherine Tatge -- [s.l.] : Newbridge Communications, [1996]
     5 videocassettes (Bill Moyers special)
Accompanied by text: BS1235.2 M68 1996.
Executive editor, Bill Moyers ; executive producers, Judith Davidson Moyers and Judy Doctoroff O'Neill ; music, Elizabeth Swados.
Contents: [v. 1.] In God's image ; Temptation -- [v. 2.] The first murder ; Apocalypse -- [v. 3.] Call and promise ; A family affair -- [v. 4.] The test ; Blessed deception -- [v. 5.] God wrestling ; Exile.
Subjects: Bible. O.T. Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Television programs -- United States.

D804.3 .G394 1981 Videotape
     Genocide [videorecording] / Simon Wiesenthal Center of the Yeshiva University of Los Angeles ; produced by Arnold Schwartzman, Marvin Hier ; directed by Arnold Schwartzman ; written by Martin Gilbert & Marvin Hier ; screenplay by Arnold Schwartzman -- Los Angeles, Calif. : Simon Wiesenthal Center, c1981.
     1 videocassette (83 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in. ; VHS format.
Film editors, Roy Watts, Robert Jenkis ; editors, Mike Sachs, Steve Purcell, Dennis Gross ; narrators, Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Wells ; music Elmer Bernstein ; historical consultant, Efriam Zuroff.
Synopsis: Graphically depicts the events of the Holocaust through the use of contemporary news film and still photos and the reminiscences of survivors.
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

HQ792 .I75 G4 1998 Videotape
     Gesho [videorecording] / directed by Beverly Shaffer ; producer, Beverly Shaffer ; produced by Studio B, the National Film Board of Canada -- Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media, 1998.
     1 videocassette (25 min.)
Title on container: Children of Jerusalem, Gesho.
Hebrew, Arabic and Ethiopic dialogue, English narration and subtitles.
Camera, Kent Nason; edited by Sidonie Kerr; narrator, Martin Wilson; original music, Chris Crilly; consultants, Shai Samuel, Batya Eyob.
Synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Gesho, an Ethiopian Jew who recently moved to Jerusalem with his family, adjusts to his new life with the help of his brother, his teachers and his friends.
Subjects: Mamu, Gesho. Jewish children -- Jerusalem -- Juvenile films. Jerusalem -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile films. Israel -- Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile films. Children -- Israel -- Juvenile films. Jews, Ethiopian -- Israel -- Juvenile films. Children's films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

PN1997 .G67 1991 VIDEOTAPE
     God, man and Devil [videorecording] = Got, Mensh un Teyvel / Aaron Productions, Inc -- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, c1991.
     1 videocassette (100 min.)
Yiddish with English subtitles.
Based on the play by Jacob Gordin.
Michal Michalesko, Berta Gersten, Lucy Gehrman, Gustav Berger.
Director, Josef Zeiden ; executive producers, Daniel Silver, Sol C. Rynd ; music, Sholom Secunda ; screenplay, Isadore Frankel.
"The Rutenberg & Everett Yiddish Film Library of the National Center for Jewish Film"--Container cover.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1949.
Synopsis: Poor, pious Torah scribe Hershalle Debrovner has a life that glorifies God until Satan, disguised as a business partner, turns him into a greedy, dishonest factory owner whose success desecrates both his religion and his community; betrayal and abandonment replace serenity and familiarity.
Subjects: Feature films.

PN3035 .G54 VIDEOTAPE
     The Golden age of Second Avenue [videorecording] -- New York, N.Y. : Arthur Cantor Films, [1987?]
     1 videocassette (70 min.)
Director and writer, Morton Silverstein ; producer, Arthur Cantor ; music, Arthur Abrams.
Herschel Bernardi, Molly Picon, Celia Adler, Paul Muni, Menasha Skulnik.
Videocassette release of the 1968 motion picture.
Synopsis: A documentary on the Yiddish theater in America. Features excerpts from Yiddish films (subtitled in English) includes interviews with those who have participated in the Yiddish theater.
Subjects: Theater, Yiddish -- New York (N.Y.) Theater -- New York (N.Y.)

PN1997 .G74 1989 VIDEOTAPE
     Green fields [videorecording] = Grine felder / [presented by] Peretz Hirschbein -- Watham, MA : National Center for Jewish Films, 1989.
     1 videocassette (95 min.)
Yiddish with English subtitles.
Best foreign film of 1938 (France) The only completely restored Yiddish films with new English subtitles on videotape.
"The Rutenberg & Everett Yiddish Film Library of the National Center for Jewish Film."
Michael Goldstein, Helen Beverly, Isidore Cashier, Anna Appel, Herschel Bernardi.
Producers, Roman Rebush and Ludwig Landy ; directors, Edgar G. Ulmer and Jacob Ben-Ami ; screenplay, George G. Moskov ; music, Vladimir Heifetz.
Previously produced as a motion picture in 1937.
Synopsis: A young Hasidic scholar leaves his studies to search the countryside for common people and a meaningful existence close to the land.

PN1997 .H2545 1988 Videotapte
     Hamsin [videorecording] / Israeli Cinema -- Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media Inc., c1988.
     1 videocassette (90 min.)
Title on container: Eastern wind Hamsin.
In Hebrew with English subtitles.
Recommended for mature audiences.
Shlomo Tarshish, Yasin Shawap, Hemda Levy, Ruth Geler.
Producer, Jacob Lifshin ; director, Daniel Wachsmann ; screenplay, D. Wachsmann, D. Verte and J. Lifshin ; photography, David Gurfinkel.
Synopsis: Shows the eternal problem of Jewish-Arab relationship between Jewish landowner and his Arab worker.
Subjects: Jewish-Arab relations. Feature films.

DS151 .R44 H38 VIDEOTAPE
     Haviva Reik [videorecording] / Center of Documentation and Research of Hashomer Hazair -- Givat Haviva [Israel] : Center of Documentation and Research of Hashomer Hazair ; Kibbuts Metzer : Audiovisual Productions, [198-?]
     1 videocassette (15 min.)
Historical background, Ely Shadmy.
Synopsis: Using black and white photographs (some tinted), the story is told of Israeli resistance fighter Haviva Reik who died in World War II. Covered is her childhood in Czechoslovakia, her life in Israel, her work with the Hashomer Hatzair, and her death in 1944 at the hands of the Nazis.
Subjects: World War, 1935-1945 -- Jewish resistance. Jewish martyrs -- Israel.

PZ7 .H385 B4 1987 Videotape
Heckel, Sally
     The bent tree [videorecording] / Sally Heckel -- Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media, c1987.
     1 videocassette (4 min.)
Sung in Yiddish with English narration.
Synopsis: A film in sand animation based on a Yiddish folk song by Itzik Manger. A tale of a child's longing and a mother's responsibility.
Subjects: Children's films. Animated films.

DS117 .H47 2001 Videotape
     Heritage [videorecording] : Civilization and the Jews / WNET New York -- [Chicago, Ill.] : Home Vision Entertainment, [2001] c1998.
     5 videocassettes (540 min.)
Host, Abba Eban.
Originally produced in 1984 for television broadcast, part 9 has been updated for 2001 rebroadcast.
Contents: v. 1. A people is born ; The power of the word -- v. 2. The shaping of traditions ; The crucible of Europe -- v. 3. The search for deliverance ; Roads from the ghetto -- v. 4. The golden land ; Out of the ashes -- v. 5. Into the future.
Synopsis: Five millennia of Jewish history is brought to life in a celebration of Jewish humanistic and moral heritage. Follow the Jewish people from the heights of Sinai to the shores of the Dead Sea, from a Greek amphitheater in Delphi to the Forum of ancient Rome, out of the ashes of concentration camps to the rebuilt cities and villages of Israel.
Subjects: Jews -- History. Judaism -- History. Civilization -- Jewish influences. Feature films. Video recordings.

PN1995.9.I77 H37 2002 DVD
     ha-Hesder [videorecording] = Time of favor / Cinema Factory presents a film by Joseph Cedar ; producers, David Mandil, Eyal Shiray ; written & directed by Joseph Cedar. -- Letterbox edition (1.85:1) -- New York, NY : Kino on Video, c2002.
     1 videodisc (101 min.)
Title from disc surface.
In Hebrew with English subtitles.
Aki Avni, Tinkerbell, Edan Alterman, Assi Dayan.
Cinematographer, Ofer Inov ; editor, Tova Asher ; music, Yonatan Bar-Giora ; costume designer, Etti Lugassi ; production designer, Yair Greenberg.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2000.
Includes: original theatrical trailer.
Synopsis: A taut thriller about the tense relationship between the orthodox nationalists and the military. Both a politico-psychological drama and a love story between a passionate woman and two best friends, Time of Favor raises important questions of faith to one's religion, duty to one's nation, and love for oneself.
Subjects: Human settlements -- Israel -- Drama. Soldiers -- Religious life -- Drama. Soldiers -- Conduct of life -- Drama. Man-woman relationships -- Drama. Violence -- Drama. West Bank -- Drama. Motion pictures -- Israel. Feature films.
http://www.kino.com/video/item.php?film_id=546

PJ5129 .C27 Y4 1992 Videotape
     Hester Street [videorecording] / Midwest Film Production, Inc. ; produced by Raphael D. Silver ; directed by Joan Micklin Silver ; screenplay by Joan Micklin Silver -- New York, NY : First Run Features Home Video, [1992?]
     1 videocassette (89 min.) (Collector's series)
Dialogue in English and Yiddish; subtitles in English.
Mel Howard, Carol Kane, Steven Keats, Dorrie Kavanaugh.
Director of photography, Kenneth Van Sickle; editor, Katherine Wenning; music, William Balcom.
Based on the story "Yekl" by Abraham Cahan.
Originally produced as motion picture in 1974.
Synopsis: Russian Jewish immigrants, Jake and Gitl, encounter trials and tribulations as they discard their old world traditions and adjust to life in New York's Lower East Side in 1896.
Subjects: Jews, Russian -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama. Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama. New York (N.Y.) -- Drama. Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama. Feature films.

D811.5 .H53 1990 Videotape
     The Hiding place [videorecording] / World Wide Pictures, Incorporated -- [Minneapolis, Minn.] : World Wide Pictures Home Video, c1990.
     1 videocassette (145 min.)
Videocassette release of the 1975 motion picture.
Closed captioned.
Rated PG.
Music, Tedd Smith ; screenplay, Allan Sloane, Lawrence Holben ; executive producer, William F. Brown ; director, James F. Collier.
Julie Harris, Eileen Heckart, Arthur O'Connell, Jeannette Clift.
Synopsis: Corrie, her father, and Corrie's sister, Betsie, lived quietly in the years before World War II. Later they worked with the underground in helping to save the lives of countless Jewish families. Though arrested and imprisoned in one of Nazi Germany's most dreaded concentration camps, Corrie and her sister learned that "there is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still."
Subjects: Ten Boom, Corrie -- Drama. World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Dutch. Concentration camps -- Germany. Ravensbruck (Concentration camp). Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

PN1997 .H5468 1993 Videotape
     His wife's lover [videorecording] = Zayn vaybs lyubovnik / The National Center for Jewish Film presents -- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, Brandeis University, c1993.
     1 videocassette (80 min.)
In Yiddish with new English subtitles.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1931.
Director, Sidney M. Goldin ; producers, Nathan Hirsch, Morris Kleinerman ; cinematography by Frank Zucker ; story, Shin Ra-Chell (Sheyne Rokhl Simkoff)
Ludwig Satz, Isidore Casher, Lucy Levin, Lillian Feinman, Michael Rosenberg, Jacob Frank, Zita Ma-Kar, Anne Shapiro.
Synopsis: "When handsome actor Eddie Wien (played by Ludwig Satz) decides to marry, his backer Oscar (Isidore Casher) offers misogyny thinly disguised as advice. But surprises confront this devilish pair as their poor target (Lucy Levine as Golde Blumberg) struggles to separate her feelings from her scruples."
Subjects: Motion pictures, Yiddish. Jews in motion pictures. Musicals -- United States. Jews -- United States -- Music. Feature films.

D810 .J4 H5934 1991 Videotape
     The Holocaust [videorecording] : a teenager's experience / produced by Remembrance Educational Media, distributed by United Learning -- Niles, IL : United Learning, c1991.
     1 videocassette (30 min.) + teacher's guide
Script: David Bergman ; Video production: John Colgren ; Consultant: Don A. Griffin ; Art: Harvey Bara, Alfred Kanter ; Editors: Phil Corner Marilyn Smedberg.
Assembled from footage obtained from the National Archives, slides and artwork from David Bergman's collection, and drawings created from personal experiences of the Holocaust.
Included in pocket 11 blackline masters with specific instructions.
Synopsis: Documentary of the Holocaust as experienced by a teenager. David Bergman was 12 years old in 1944 when he and his family were forced from their home by the Nazis and shipped to Auschwitz. He tells us his ordeal and how he struggled to survive during this period of history.
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). Bergman, David, 1931-. World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.

D804.3 .H6433 1987 Videotape
     The Holocaust [videorecording] : judgment in Jerusalem / written and directed by Tristram Powell ; BBC -- Princeton, NJ Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1998.
     1 videocassette (51 min.)
Videocassette release of the 1987 BBC production.
Narrator, David Suchet.
Film editor, Julian Miller ; editor, Roy Davies.
Synopsis: "The 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major architects of the Holocaust, opened deep wounds in the Jewish community. Writer Hannah Arendt, who covered the proceedings, was eventually inspired to write two controversial books that address the banality of evil and the legality of the trial. Most controversial, however, was Arendt's contention that in submitting to Nazi terror, Jews bore some responsibility for their fate. Using Eichmann's trial as a centerpiece, this program casts new light both on Arendt and on the Holocaust"--Container label.
Subjects: Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962. Arendt, Hannah. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

D810 .J4 H6 1994 Videotape
     Holocaust [videorecording] : the story of man's inhumanity to man / Republic Pictures ; a Herbert Brodkin production ; producer, Robert Berger ; director, Marvin J. Chomsky ; written by Gerald Green -- Los Angeles, Calif. : Republic Entertainment, Inc., c1994.
     1 videocassette (450 min.)
Videocassette release of the 1978 film by Titus Productions, Inc.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Tom Bell, Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh, Marius Goring, Rosemary Harris, Anthony Haygarth, Michael Moriarty, Deborah Norton, George Rose, Robert Stephens, Meryl Streep, Sam Wanamaker, David Warner, Fritz Weaver, James Woods.
Photographed by Brian West ; film editors, Alan Heim, Brian Smedley-Aston ; music by Morton Gould.
Synopsis: This drama unfolds through the lives of two families living in Nazi Germany. Follow the tragedy and triumph of the Weiss family. Paralleling their saga is the poignant transformation of Erik Dorf, an unsuccessful lawyer prodded on by his ambitious wife to join the SS and enlist as aide to Heydrich, chief strategist of "the final solution." Their compelling stories make Holocaust a riveting and unforgettable experience.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Drama. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Drama. World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Drama. Feature films.

D810. J4 S268 1991 VIDEOTAPE
Scharf, Alex
     The Holocaust [videorecording] : When God looked down and wept / by Alex Scharf -- Boston, Mass. : Pentangle Productions, [c1991]
     2 videocassettes (164 min.)
Contents: Part 1 (53 min.) -- Part 2 (53 min.) -- Part 3 (58 min.)
Synopsis: An eyewitness account of the Holocaust by survivor Alex Scharf, with documentary film footage.
Subjects: Scharf, Alex. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives, Czech. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Personal narratives. Documentary films. Biographical films.

F869 .P4 H662 2002 Videotape
     A home on the range [videorecording] : the Jewish chicken ranchers of Petaluma / a documentary by Bonnie Burt and Judy Montell -- Berkeley, CA : Burt/Montell Productions, c2002.
     1 videocassette (52 min.)
Subjects: Jews -- California -- Petaluma -- History -- 20th century. Jewish farmers -- California -- Petaluma -- History -- 20th century. Petaluma (Calif.) -- Emigration and immigration. Petaluma (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations.

TX770 .H68 1987 VIDEOTAPE
     Hot bagels, the hole story [videorecording] / Burma Road ; producers, Jerry Joffe and Steve Christiansen ; director, Jerry Joffe -- Teaneck, NJ ; Ergo Media, 1987.
     1 videocassette (12 min.) (American Jewish experience)
Made 1982.
Synopsis: Illuminates the history of the bagel through archival footage and stills, and demonstrates both the modern method of mass producing bagels by specialized machinery and the more traditional hand method.
Subjects: Bagels.

DS135 .P6 I42 1988 VIDEOTAPE
     Image before my eyes [videorecording] / YIVO Institute for Jewish Research ; produced by Josh Waletzky and Susan Lazarus ; directed by Josh Waletzky -- New York : Axon Video Corp., 1988.
     1 videocassette (90 min.)
On container: Almi Home Video Corp.
Synopsis: Presents a photographic history of Jewish life in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s. Includes historic footage and stills and voice-over recollections as visuals document Polish Jews' patriotism in World War I, the postwar surge in anti-Semitism, the vitality of the Yiddish theater, the political activism of Jewish youth in the 1930s, the disastrous determination of most of Poland's Jews to weather the Nazi storm, and Germany's invasion in 1939.
Subjects: Jews -- Poland -- History -- 20th century. Poland -- Ethnic relations.

PN1997 .I457 1992 VIDEOTAPE
     The imported bridegroom [videorecording] / Lara Classics ; [written], produced and directed by Pamela Berger -- Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media, c1992.
     1 videocassette (93 min.)
Based on the story by Abraham Cahan.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1989.
Eugene Troobnick, Avi Hoffman, Greta Cowan, Annette Miller.
Synopsis: Asriel Stroon, a widowed landlord in turn-of-the-century America, goes back to the "Old Country" and prays at his father's grave for the Almighty to wipe away his sins. While there, he bids on a bridegroom for his daughter, Flora, but Flora wants to marry an "American" doctor. Asriel's expensive gift to her costs more than the beleaguered father paid for.

DS109.3 .I5 1994 Videotape
     In search of the Holy Temple [videorecording] : "and I will dwell among you" / SET Productions & the Temple Institute -- Brunswick, Ohio : American Portrait Films ; Cherry Hill, NJ : Distributed by Art Enterprises, c1994.
     1 videocassette (25 min.)
Synopsis: Through the miracle of computer animation you can see the Temple as it was over 2,000 years ago.
Subjects: Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem). Jews -- History -- To 70 A.D. Temple Mount (Jerusalem)

DS110 .W47 I47 1988 Videotape
     Inside the West Bank [videorecording] / an MPI Video News Magazine -- [s.l.] : MPI Home Video, c1988.
     1 videocassette (80 min.)
Victor Schonfeld.
Synopsis: Filmmaker Victor Schonfeld took his camera to one of the most volatile areas of the world, the West Bank, and the result is an intense portrait. Anyone interested in understanding the complex issues between Israeli sand Palestinian should view this film.
Subjects: West Bank.

DS135 .G3315 I586 2001
     Into the arms of strangers [videorecording] : stories of the Kindertransport / Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Sabine Films, Skywalker, U.S. Holocaust Museum ; producer, Deborah Oppenheimer ; written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris -- Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2001], c2000.
     1 videodisc (118 min.)
Dialogue in English or French; subtitles in English, French or Spanish
Judi Dench, narrator
Director of photography, Don Lenzer ; editor, Kate Amend ; music, Lee Holdridge
MPAA rating: PG
This film was produced with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
Special features: two feature_length commentaries by the filmmakers, with bonus video segments branching from the track; bonus interviews with Lord Richard Attenborough and other Kindertransport participants; coverage of the London and Berlin premieres featuring HRH Prince Charles and Chancellor Gerhard Schroder; historical artifacts and memorabilia from the Kinder photo gallery; Kinder, parent and rescuer profiles; original theatrical trailer; filmmaker career highlights; DVD_ROM features: links to original theatrical website and chat rooms; downloadable study guide for viewers and educators via the website.
Synopsis: The life_affirming tale of 10,000 children saved from Hitler's grasp and placed with foster parents and hostels in Great Britain at the outbreak of World War II. Includes archival footage and decades_later rememberances of both the rescuers and the rescued.
Subjects: Kindertransports (Rescue operations) __ Great Britain. Jewish children __ Germany __ Biography. Jews __ Germany __ History __ 1933_1945. Refugees, Jewish __ Great Britain __ Biography. Jewish children __ Great Britain __ Biography. Jews __ Germany __ Biography. Refugees __ Great Britain __ Biography. Feature films. Video recordings.
http://www.intothearmsofstrangers.com/

M1850 .I873 1999 Videotape
     Israel [videorecording] : sounds in search of a home / produced for the Israel Music Heritage Project by Tel-Ad Jerusalem Studios ; scriptwriter, editor and director, Asher Tlalim -- Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media Inc., c1999.
     1 videocassette (51 min.) (People and its music ; v. 1) (Jewish music heritage library)
Title on cassette label: Sounds in search of a home.
In Hebrew with English subtitles and narration.
Performers: Israel Brite, Yehuda Poliker, Ya'acov Gilad, Avihu Medina, Daklon, Eti Ankeri, Yehudit Ravitz, Esther Ofarim, Johny Shuali, Amir Kertes, Michael Wolpe, Caprisma Ensemble.
Creator and executive producer, Tzipora H. Jochsberger ; producers, Michal Ben-David, Chanoch Zeevi ; director of photography, Yoram Millo ; narrator, Martin Bookspan ; musical advisor, Edwin Seroussi.
Synopsis: A compilation of the various sounds of all of the immigrants to Israel who brought their music with them from the four corners of the earth.
Subjects: Jews -- Music. Songs, Hebrew.

DS126.5 .I776 1992 Video, tape
     Israel [videorecording] : a nation is born / with Abba Eban ; produced by Israel Heritage in association with Thirteen/WNET -- Danbury, CT. : Moreshet Israel, c1992.
     5 videocassettes (55 min. ea.)
Executive producer, Zvi Almog ; producer/director, Neville Meyer ; editor, Steven Queen ; writer, John Lord.
Abba Eban.
Contents: [Part 1] Portrays the rise of Zionism and President Truman's support for a Jewish state and describes the Jewish struggle for independence in Palestine. [Part 2] Opens with the proclamation of Israeli statehood on May 14, 1948 and the subsequent war with the Arabs, the siege and fall of Jerusalem and the initial peace process. Also describes Jewish immigration to Israel and developments in the early 1950s. [Part 3] Explains the end of Israeli isolation culminating in the Sinai Campaign of 1956. Also covers the kidnaping and trial of Adolf Eichmann, Nasser's plots against Israel, and Richard Nixon's insights on events of the period. [Part 4] Starts with events surrounding the Six Day War of 1967 and describes Eban's work as Foreign Minister, the passage of UN resolution 242, and the failure of post-war attempts to achieve peace. [Part 5] Opens with the Yom Kippur War of 1973 and the Camp David Accord leading to a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. Eban describes his personal communications with Arab leaders and outlines the beginning of a new peace process after the Madrid Conference.
Subjects: Israel -- History. Israel -- Foreign relations. Arab-Israeli conflict. Eban, Abba Solomon, 1915-

DS119.7 .I822 1998 Videotape
     Israel and the Palestinians [videorecording] : the continuing conflict / a production of Amram Nowak Associates -- Columbus, OH : University Technology Services, Ohio State University, 1998.
     1 videocassette (60 min.)
Title on container: Israel and Palestinians.
Issued as a U-matic 3/4 in. reformatted to VHS 1/2 in. at the Ohio State University.
Producer, Andrea Simon ; director, Amram Nowak.
Ages 14 through adult.
Synopsis: Examines the history of Jewish-Arab relations in the Middle East, the position of the PLO, the responsibility of Arab nations for perpetuating the Palestinian refugee problem, and the double standard by which the rest of the world judges the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Subjects: Jewish-Arab relations. Jewish-Arab relations -- Public opinion.

M1811.18 .I77 1988 Videotape
     Israel on parade [videorecording] : a variety show -- Teaneck : Ergo Media, 1988.
     1 videocassette (50 min.)
Various performers.
Sung in Hebrew and English.
Videorecording of program produced in Israel in 1984 by Israel Broadcasting Authority.
Contents: Hi (Ofra Haza) -- On the record (Ilanit) -- Shalom Dance Company -- Chimes (Yizhar Cohen) -- The honey or the sting (Naomi Shemer) -- Shalom Dance Company -- Medley of Palmach songs (Yehoram Gaon) -- Shalom Dance Company -- Song of the companies (Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra ; Israel Defense Forces Brass Band ; Yizhak Graziani, conductor) -- Shalom Dance Company) -- Rock n' roll (Dudaim) -- Amen (Yardena Arazi) -- Call me (Isoleer Band) -- Shalom Dance Company -- Kibbutz Geva at 60 (The Gevatron) -- The party is over (Hakol O-ver Habibi) -- The army is marching (Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra ; Israel Defense Forces Brass Band ; Yizhak Graziani, conductor).
Subjects: Variety shows (Television programs). Popular music -- Israel -- 1981-1990. Folk dancing, Israeli.

DS126.8 .I7 1988 VIDEOTAPE
     Israel : the promise of the Jewish people [videorecording] -- Clarksburg, NJ : Alden Films ; 1988.
     1 videocassette (60 min.)
"Featuring: Bob Grant."
Directed and produced by Yisrael Lifschutz.
Subjects: Israel.

D810.J4 I83 1997 Videotape
     It was nothing, it was everything [videorecording] : reflections on the rescue of Greek Jews during the Holocaust / a co-production of Documentaries International Film & Video Foundation and Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Heroes and Remembrances Authority, Jerusalem -- Washington, DC : Documentaries International Film & Video Foundation, 1997.
     1 videocassette (29 min.) + 1 companion guide ([17] p. ; 19 cm.)
Written, produced, and directed by Sy Rotter ; narrated by Irene Pappas.
Companion guide in pocket.
"English version"--Cassette label.
Includes bibliographical references in companion guide.
Synopsis: Presents interviews and archival footage reflecting on the events associated with the rescue of Greek Jews during the Holocaust. Features the stories of ordinary citizens who became extraordinary through the moral courage they evidenced in risking their lives to protect Jewish fugitives.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Greece. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Greece. Jews -- Greece -- History -- 20th century.

ML410 .R78 I83 1996 Videotape
     Italy : [videorecording] : Salomone Rossi, between worlds / [presented by] the Israel Music Heritage Project ; created and produced by Tzipora H. Jochsberger ; written and directed by Asher Tlalim -- Teaneck, N.J. : Ergo Media, c1996.
     1 videocassette (28 min.)(Jewish music heritage library ; v. 9) (People and its music)
Alternate title: Salomone Rossi: between worlds.
In Italian with English subtitles.
Rossi Concerto Ensemble, Roberto Gini, director ; Il Furioso (Historical Dance Ensemble) ; Il Ruggiero Ensemble.
Edwin Seroussi, musical advisor ; Drora Bruck, musical consultant ; Martin Bookspan, narrator.
Produced at Tel-Ad Jerusalem Studios.
Synopsis: Salomone Rossi was the first to introduce choral music into the synagogue. Filmed on location in Italian palaces and synagogues in Mantua and Venice, Rossi's works are performed by Israeli and Italian musicians. Also features reconstructed dances created by Jewish dancing masters and performed in authentic costumes.
Subjects: Rossi, Salamone, 1570?-ca. 1630. Selections. Jewish musicians -- Italy -- Mantua. Musicians -- Italy -- Mantua. Jews -- Music. Jewish dance.

PN6162 .M284 2001 DVD
     Jackie Mason [videorecording] : comedy trilogy / Jackie Mason -- West Long Branch, NJ : White Star, [2001?]
     1 videodisc (180 min.)
Features the comedian in three programs recorded in previous years.
Contents: Jackie Mason : an equal opportunity offender -- Jackie Mason in Israel -- Jackie Mason on campus.
Subjects: Comedy programs.

DS109.9 .J455 1997 Videotape
     Jerusalem [videorecording] : between heaven & earth / a production of AVA Productions BV, Netherlands in cooperation with EOTV, Netherlands and HVW, Belgium and CoBO Fund -- Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media, Inc., c1997.
     3 videocassettes (156 min.)
Videocassette release of the 1996 production.
Producer and director, Willy Lindwer ; writers, Aliza Olmert and Carl Perkal ; music, Bustan Abraham.
Narrators: Meron Benvenisti and Gabriel Barkay.
Contents: pt. 1. City of history -- pt. 2. City of religion -- pt. 3. City of peace.
Synopsis: An exploration of the history, religion and politics of Jerusalem as seen through the eyes of three major faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Subjects: Jerusalem -- History. Religions -- Relations. Christianity. Islam. Judaism. Israel -- History.

DS109.2 .J48 1990 Videotape
     Jerusalem [videorecording] / Jerusalem Reclamation Project ; American Friends of Ateret Cohanim ; text by Rav Shlomo Aviner ; adapted for video by Yehuda and Sara Wurtzel -- Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media, Inc., 1990.
     1 videocassette (30 min.)
Title on label: Jerusalem, soul of a people.
Synopsis: A history of Jerusalem using animation, photographs, and documentary footage.
Subjects: Jerusalem -- Description and travel. Jerusalem -- History.

DS109.15 .J475 1993 Videotape
     Jerusalem potpourri [videorecording] / produced by Micha Shagrir ; directed by Nathan Lifshitz -- Teaneck, N.J. : Ergo Media, Inc., 1993.
     1 videocassette (28 min.)
Synopsis: This documentary provides a look at the hidden marvels of modern-day Jerusalem, from the daily life of its inhabitants to its dynamic culture and night life.
Subjects: Subjects: Jerusalem -- Description -- 1981-

DS109.9 .J38 1996 Videotape
     Jerusalem [videorecording] / with Martin Gilbert -- New York : A&E Home Video, c1996.
     2 videocassettes (ca. 150 min.)
Narrator, Martin Gilbert.
Produced by Krosney Productions for the History Channel ; Herbert Krosney, producer and director.
Synopsis: Renowned historian Martin Gilbert guides us through thirty centuries of incredible events in Jerusalem, from the dawn of civilization to the latest developments in the Arab-Israeli peace talks. The city's sweeping drama and enduring beauty are captured in the most comprehensive series on Jerusalem ever filmed.
Subjects: Jerusalem -- History. Jerusalem -- Description and travel. Documentary films.

DS135 .C5 J468 1995 Videotape
     Jewish communities of Kaifeng and San'a [videorecording] / Beth Hatefutsoth ; producer, Nathan Beyrak ; written and directed by Yossi Turisky -- Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media, c1995.
     1 videocassette (31 min.)
Narration and credits in English; title in Hebrew and English.
Narrators, Johnny Phillips, Dawn Nadel, Irving Kaplan.
Cameramen, Oren Schmukler, Moshe Schiff ; editor, Ido Bahat ; music, Abraham Amzalag ... [et al.]
Contents: Yehudim Sinim al gedot ha-Nahar ha-Tsahov = Chinese Jews on the banks of the Yellow River -- Yehude Tsanah : temunot me-haye yom yom = The Jews of San'a: scenes of daily life.
Synopsis: These two films explore the Jewish communities of Kaifeng, China and Sana, Yemen. The first describes the origin and growth of the ancient Jewish community in China. The second explores the lifestyles of the Jews of Sana up to and including their immigration to Israel after 1948.
Subjects: Jews -- China -- Kaifeng (Henan Sheng) -- History. Jews -- Yemen -- Sana -- History. Kaifeng Shi (China) -- History. Sana (Yemen) -- History.

PN1997 .J623 1989 Video, tape
     Jewish life in Bialystok [videorecording] / presented by Yitzhak Goskind -- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, c1989.
     1 videocassette (10 min.)
Yiddish narration, English subtitles.
Asher Lerner.
Text, Asher Lerner ; photography, V. Kazimierczak.
"The Rutenberg and Everett Yiddish Film Library."
Originally produced as a motion picture: Warsaw, Poland : Sektor Films, 1939.
Synopsis: Portrays the commercial, industrial and cultural center that was Bialystok, Poland in 1939, emphasizing the city's 200-year-old Jewish community.
Subjects: Jews -- Poland -- Bialystok. Bialystok (Poland) -- Description and travel.

PN1997 .J632 1989 Video, tape
     Jewish life in Krakow [videorecording] / presented by Yitzhak Goskind -- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, c1989.
     1 videocassette (11 min., 42 sec.)
Yiddish narration, English subtitles.
Title on videocassette and container labels: Jewish life in Cracow. Asher Lerner.
Text, Asher Lerner ; photography, V. Kazimierczak.
"The Rutenberg & Everett Yiddish film library of the National Center for Jewish Films"--Container label.
Originally produced as a motion picture: Warsaw, Poland : Sektor Films, 1939.
Synopsis: Portrays the Krakow, Poland of 1939; includes commercial, industrial and cultural highlights, focusing on the Jews, their institutions, and their way of life.
Subjects: Jews -- Poland -- Krakow. Krakow (Poland) -- Description and travel.

PN1997 .J635 1990 Video, tape
     Jewish life in Lwow [videorecording] / presented by Yitzhak Goskind -- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, c1990.
     1 videocassette (10 min.)
Yiddish narration, English subtitles.
Asher Lerner.
Text, Asher Lerner ; photography, V. Kazimierczak.
"The Rutenberg and Everett Yiddish Film Library."
Originally produced as a motion picture: Warsaw, Poland : Sektor Films, 1939.
Synopsis: Now known as L'vov, in Ukraine, this city is shown as it was in early 1939, the Polish City of Lwow. Focuses on the Jews, one third of the population in 1939, their institutions, and their way of life.
Subjects: Jews -- Ukraine -- Lviv. Lviv (Ukraine) -- Description and travel.

PN1997 .J645 1989 Video, tape
     Jewish life in Wilno [videorecording] / presented by Yitzhak Goskind -- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, c1989.
     1 videocassette (11 min)
Yiddish narration, English subtitles.
Title on videocassette and container labels: Jewish life in Vilna.
Asher Lerner.
Text, Asher Lerner ; photography, V. Kazimierczak.
"The Rutenberg and Everett Yiddish Film Library."
Originally produced as a motion picture: Warsaw, Poland : Sektor Films, 1939.
Synopsis: Shows Vilnius, Lithuania, a leading spiritual and cultural center for Eastern European Jews from the 16th century until World War II, as it was in early 1939, when it was a part of Poland and known as Wilno, or Vilna. Portrays Vilnius' landmarks and focuses on the daily life of the Jews living there.
Subjects: Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius. Vilnius (Lithuania) -- Description and travel.

F73.9 .J5 J39 1996 Videotape
     The Jews of Boston [videorecording] / produced by WGBH Boston -- Boston : WGBH Education Foundation, c1996.
     1 videocassette (60 min.)
Producer/writer, Lorie Conway ; editor, Mary E. Fenton ; director of photography, Ken Willinger ; sound engineer, Paul Green ; photographs courtesy of the American Jewish Historical Society.
Narrator, Leonard Nimoy.
Synopsis: Presents the diverse voices of Boston's Jews today including businessman, scholar and writer. Through personal stories and evocative memories, many Jewish people relive their personal journey to America from Europe through Ellis Island and into the old neighborhoods of Boston.
Subjects: Jews -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

DS135 .P6 J465 1988 VIDEOTAPE
     The Jews of Poland [videorecording] : five cities / Ergo Media Inc -- [Teaneck, N.J.] : Ergo Home Video, c1988.
     1 videocassette (50 min.)
The films are from the Jewish Film Archive's pre-War European collection of Jewish films.
"Jewish Film Archive, Hebrew University, WZO."
Synopsis: Filmed primarily in 1939, these five short documentary films focus on Jewish life in the Polish cities of Krakow, Vilna (Vilnius), Lwow (Lvov), Warsaw, and Bialystok.
Subjects: Jews -- Poland -- Social life and customs. Jews -- Poland -- History. Poland -- Description and travel. Poland -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945.

PN1997 .F72 1989 VIDEOTAPE
     Jolly paupers [videorecording] = Freylekhe kabtsonim -- Waltham, MA. : National Center for Jewish Films, 1989.
     1 videocassette (62 min.)
Videocassette of a 1937 motion picture.
Yiddish, with English subtitles.
"The Rutenberg & Everett Yiddish Film Library of the National Center for Jewish Film."--container cover.
The only completely restored Yiddish films with new English subtitles on videotape.
Shimon Dzigan, Yisroel Shumacher and the Warsaw Art Players.
Synopsis: A musical comedy portraying the relentless efforts of two small town Jews to escape their misery and achieve fame and fortune.
Subjects: Feature films. Musical films. Comedy films.

PN1995.9.F67 K336 2000 DVD
     Kadosh [videorecording] = Sacred / Agav Hafakot, M.P. Productions -- New York, NY : Kino International Corp., 2000.
     1 videodisc (117 min.)
In Hebrew with English subtitles.
Yael Abecassis, Yoram Hattab, Meital Barda, Uri Klauzner, Yussef Abu Warda, Lea Koenig, Sami Hori, Rivka Michaeli.
Screenplay by Eliette Abecasses, Amos Gitai ; produced by Michael Propper, Amos Gitai ; directed by Amos Gitai ; photography, Renato Berta ; editing, Monica Coleman, Kobi Netanel ; music, Louis Sclavis.
Special features: "The making of Kadosh," a 24 min. documentary; original theatrical trailer.
Videodisc release of the 1999 motion picture.
Synopsis: The story of two Hasidic sisters living in the Mea Sherim area of Jerusalem. Rivka and her husband are deeply in love, but he obeys his rabbi father and divorces her after 10 childless years of marriage. Rivka's sister Malka loves a man who has left Hasidism after joining the army, but accepts the marriage her parents have arranged to the rabbi's assistant.
Subjects: Hasidim -- Jerusalem -- Drama. Jews -- Jerusalem -- Drama. Marriage customs and rites, Jewish -- Drama. Arranged marriage -- Jerusalam -- Drama. Jerusalem -- In motion pictures. Feature films. Foreign films.

PN1997 .K378 1996 Videotape
     ha-Kayits shel Aviha [videorecording] = The summer of Aviya / screenplay by Gila Almagor, Haim Bouzaglo, Eli Cohen ; produced by Eitan Evan, Gila Almagor ; directed by Eli Cohen -- Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media, c1996.
     1 videocassette (ca. 96 min.)
Hebrew with English subtitles.
Gila Almagor, Kaipo Cohen, Eli Cohen, Marina Rossetti, Avital Dicker, Dina Avrech, Sandra Sade.
Editor, Tova Neeman ; music, Shem-Tov Levi ; director of photography, David Gurfinkel.
Videocassette release of the 1988 motion picture.
Synopsis: Presents Gila Almagor's autobiographical film, based on her book, about a Holocaust survivor who immigrates with her daughter to the newly founded Israeli state. Aviya is a spunky 10 old year girl who, like her mother, is a survivor in the face of persecution.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors -- Israel -- Drama. Israel -- Emigration and immigration -- Drama. Feature films.

PN1995.9 .F67 B76 2004 DVD
     Kenafayim shevurot [videorecording] = Broken wings / a Sony Pictures Classics release ; an Assaf Amir & Norma production ; a film by Nir Bergman ; producer, Assaf Amir ; written and directed by Nir Bergman -- [United States] : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2004]
     1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from container.
Hebrew dialogue, English subtitles.
Orly Zilbershatz-Banai, Maya Maron.
Director of photography, Valentin Belonogov ; editor, Einat Glaser Zarhin.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2002.
MPAA rating: R.
Synopsis: An Israeli mother wrestles with her own grief and that of her four children while working two jobs to keep their family together, after the death of her husband. Winner of 9 Israeli Film Academy awards.
Subjects: Death -- Psychological aspects -- Drama. Family -- Drama. Working mothers -- Drama.

HX742.2 .A3 K53 1996 videotape
     The kibbutz [videorecording] / produced by I.F.S. ; director, Alik Vatikay ; producer, David Schutz -- Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media, [1996], c1989.
     1 videocassette (26 min.)
Videorecording of film produced in 1989.
Title also in Hebrew.
Synopsis: "This video explores how, faced by external challenges and influences, the kibbutz has evolved socially, economically and philosophically"--Container.
Subjects: Kibbutzim.

BS635.3 .K45 2003 DVD
     Kingdom of David [videorecording] : the saga of the Israelites / a production of Oregon Public Broadcasting and Red Hill Productions in association with PBS and Devillier Donegan Enterprises -- [Alexandria, VA] : PBS DVD Video, c2003.
     1 videodisc (220 min.)
Closed captioned.
Directed by Carl Byker and Mitch Wilson ; written by Carl Byker, Isaac Mizrahi and David Mrazek ; producers, Jack Combs, Richard Kassebaum ; cinematography, Mitch Wilson ; editor, Isaac Mizrahi ; narrator, Keith David ; music, Eric Friedlander.
Originally broadcast on the television series: Empires.
Synopsis: Tells the story of the Israelites and the creaton of the world's first monotheistic religion.
Subjects: Jews -- Civilization -- To 70 A.D. Jews -- History -- To 70 A.D. Palestine -- History -- To 70 A.D. Documentary television programs. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
http://www.ddegroup.com/DDE/Catalogue/History/Kingdom+of+David+The+Saga+of+the+Israelites.htm

DS128.1 .K56 2001 DVD
     Kippur [videorecording] / A Michel Propper and Amos Gitai production -- New York, NY : Kino Video, [2001]
     1 videodisc (123 min.)
Letterboxed; Widescreen.
Originally produced as motion picture in 2000.
Includes theatrical trailer.
In Hebrew with English subtitles.
Director, Amos Gitai ; screenplay, Amos Gitai and Marie-Jose Sanselme. ; cinematography, Renato Berta ; editors, Monica Coleman, Michael Tapuach ; music, Jan Garbarek.
Liron Levo, Tomer Ruso.
Synopsis: Film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. We are led on a day that begins with quiet city streets, but ends with death, destruction and devastation of both body and mind.
Subjects: Israel-Arab War, 1973 -- Drama. War films. Foreign films. Feature films.
http://movies.go.com/movies/K/kippur_2000/

D804.32 .S65 1999 DVD
     The Last days [videorecording] / Steven Spielberg and the Shoah Foundation present a film by James Moll -- Special edition -- New York, NY : USA Home Entertainment, c1999.
     1 videodisc (87 min.)
Title and date from container.
"October Films"
Closed-captioned.
Rated PG-13.
Synopsis: Traces the experiences of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors who fell victim to Hitler's brutal war against the Jews during the final days of World War II, and returned to their hometowns and ghettos and the concentration camps in which they were imprisoned.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945. Feature films. Documentary films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/reviews/lastdays.html

PN1997 .L345 2002 DVD
     Late marriage [videorecording] = Mariage tardif = [Hatunah meuheret] / Transfax Film Production, Morgane Production presentent en coproduction avec Israel Film Fund, Keshet Broadcasting ... Le Centre National de la Cinematographie ; producers, Edgard Tenembaum, Marek Rozenbaum ; written & directed, Dover Kosashvili -- Original version -- Quebec, Canada : Seville Films, [2002], c2001
     1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
In Georgian and Hebrew with English subtitles.
Lior Louie Ashkenazi, Ronit Elkabetz, Moni Moshonov, Lili Kosashvili, Ayo Steinovits Laor, Rozina Cambos, Simon Chen, Sopir Kugman, Dina Doron.
Director of photography, Dani Schneor ; editor, Yael Perlov ; original music, Joseph Bardanashvili ; costume designer, Maya Barsky ; production designer, Avi Fahima.
Canadian home video rating: R.
Synopsis: Unmarried at 31, Zaza has become an embarassment to his family. With one potential bride after another trotted out in front of him, he somehow manages to never tie the knot. Curious, his family investigates and discovers his secret relationship to a divorcee. Upset, the entire family decide to intervene.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships -- Drama. Marriage -- Parental consent -- Drama. Feature films. Jews, Georgian (Transcaucasian) -- Israel -- Drama.

PN1997 .L425 2001 DVD
     Left luggage [videorecording] / a Castle Hill Films release, Trident releasing presents a Shooting Star Film Company BV and Flying Dutchman Production, Inc. present in association with Favourite Films NV and Greystone Films, a film by Jeroen Krabbe ; producers, Ate de Jong, Hans Pos, Dave Schram ; screenplay writer, Edwin de Vries ; director, Jeroen Krabbe -- New York, NY : Fox Lorber Video ; distributed by Winstar TV & Video, [2001], c1998.
     1 videodisc (96 min.)
Isabella Rossellini, Maximilian Schell, Laura Fraser, Jeroen Krabbe, Marianne Saegebrecht, David Bradley, Adam Monty, Chaim Topol.
Director of photography, Walther Vanden Ende ; art director, Hemmo Sportel ; editor, Edgar Burcksen ; music, Henny Vrienten ; costume designers, Yan Tax, Bernadette Corstens.
Videodisc release of the 1998 motion picture.
Based on the novel "The shovel and the loom" (Twee koffers vol) by Carl Friedman.
Synopsis: A young jewish philosophy student, with little knowledge of the many strict rules of the Hassidic way of life, becomes the nanny for a family that she learns to respect. Her parents are both concentration camp survivors and her father is obsessed with finding the two pieces of luggage he buried in Antwerp at the start of World War II.
Subjects: Feature films. Video recordings. Jewish families -- Religious life -- Drama. Antwerp (Belgium) -- 1970-1979 -- Drama.

D810 .J4 C532 1994 Videotape
     Liberation [videorecording] / Moriah Films of the Simon Wiesenthal Center -- Los Angeles, Calif. : Simon Wiesenthal Center, c1994.
     1 videocassette (100 min.)
Accompanies the book: Code name : the long sobbing (D810.J4 C532 1994) / by Arnold Schwartzman.
Director-screenplay, Arnold Schwartzman ; executive producer, Richard Trank ; producers, Arnold Schwartzman, Marvin Hier ; writers, Martin Gilbert, Marvin Hier ; music, Carl Davis ; editor, David Dresher.
Narrators: Ben Kingsley, Miriam Margolyes, Patrick Stewart, Jean Boht, Whoopi Goldberg.
Synopsis: Documentary on the progress of the Allied offensive against Germany at the same time that Hitler was winning the genocidal war against European Jews.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Documentary films.

GV865 .G68 L53 2001 DVD
     The life and times of Hank Greenberg [videorecording] / Cesla Foundation ; written, produced and directed by Aviva Kempner -- Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2001.
     1 videodisc (95 min.)
MPAA rating: PG.
Closed-captioned.
Subtitles: English, Spanish and Yiddish (in English transliteration)
Special features: commentary by Aviva Kempner; interviews with fans, celebrities and baseball players; Hank Greenberg stats; filmmaker biography; director's notes; trailer; reviews.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999.
Synopsis: Biography of Hank Greenberg, the first Jewish baseball star.
Subjects: Greenberg, Hank. Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) Jewish baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
http://www.hankgreenbergfilm.org/

BM198.4 .U54 L53 1997 DVD
     A life apart [videorecording] : Hasidism in America / a film by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky -- New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1997.
     1 videodisc (95 minutes)
Narrated by Leonard Nimoy and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Synopsis: A life apart relates the story of the creation of the Hasidic post-Holocaust communities in the United States.
Subjects: Hasidism -- United States. Hasidim -- United States. Hasidim -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs. Hasidism -- New York (State) -- New York. New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
http://www.pbs.org/alifeapart/res_photos.html

PN1997 .V568 1999 DVD
     La Vita e bella [videorecording] = Life is beautiful / Miramax Films ; Cecchi Gori Group ; Mario e Vittorio Cecchi Gori presentano una produzione Melampo Cinematografica -- [Calif.] : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, [1999], c1997.
     1 videodisc (116 min.) (Miramax collector's series)
Widescreen version.
In Italian, Italian with English subtitles, or English.
Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bustric, Lydia Alfonsi, Giorgio Cantarini, Horst Buchholz, Marisa Paredes.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura di Vincenzo Cerami e Roberto Benigni ; prodotto da Elda Ferri e Gianluigi Braschi ; regia di Roberto Benigni ; director of photography, Tonino Delli Colli; film editor, Simona Paggi; music, Nicola Piovani.
Originally released as motion picture in 1997.
Rated PG-13.
Includes theatrical trailer, featurette, and Academy Award TV commercials.
Synopsis: A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II.
Subjects: Feature films. Foreign films. World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama. Comedy films. Motion pictures, Italian. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/reviews/lifeisbeautiful.html

M1852 .L53 1992 VIDEOTAPE
     A Life of song [videorecording] : a portrait of Ruth Rubin, Yiddish folksinger and folklorist / Cindy Marshall Productions ; producer, director, Cindy Marshall -- Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media, 1992, c1986.
     1 videocassette (38 min.)
Oral History Center supported by Marshall Productions, a program of the Marshall Corp. on the Arts and Humanities.
Synopsis: Through archival images and Ruth Rubin's delivery of period Yiddish folk songs, re-creates the world of a nineteenth-century Eastern European shtetl. Shows collector, publisher, performer, lecturer, and Yiddish folklorist Rubin in performance and with study groups participating in the revival of Yiddish as a language and part of a culture.
Subjects: Folk songs, Yiddish -- Europe, Eastern. Folk songs, Yiddish -- Europe, Eastern -- History and criticism. Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Music. Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Music -- History and criticism. Folk music -- Europe, Eastern. Folk music -- Europe, Eastern -- History and criticism. Rubin, Ruth.

DS135 .P62 L64 1992b Videotape
     Lodz ghetto [videorecording] / produced by Alan Adelson ; directed by Kathryn Taverna and Alan Adelson -- Bethesda, MD : Distributed by Atlas Video, [1992]
     1 videocassette (118 min.)
Written, produced, directed, and narrated by Alan Adelson.
Cinematography, Jozef Piwkowski, Eugene Squires ; still photo cinematography, Gary Becker, Kathryn Taverna ; film editor, Kathryn Taverna ; script compiled and edited by Alan Adelson ; voice, Jerzy Kosinski ; original score, Wendy Blackstone ; chief historical consultant, Lucjan Dobroszycki.
Based on diaries and photographs from the Lodz ghetto.
Lodz ghetto copyright 1989; supplementary section copyright 1992.
"Jewish Heritage Project."
Synopsis: A chronological account of life in the Lodz Ghetto through over 1,000 carefully sequenced filmed images, made at great risk and left deliberately by the doomed community members. Includes a supplement follwing the program describing the making of the film, as well as interviews with people connected with the ghetto.
Subjects: Subjects: Jews -- Poland -- Lodz -- Persecutions. Holocaust, Jewish 1939-1945) -- Poland -- Lodz -- Personal narratives.

DS126.4 .L64 1998
     The long way home [videorecording] / Moriah Films of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Seventh Art Releasing ; produced by Rabbi Marvin Hier and Richard Trank ; written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris -- Commemorative edition -- Salt Lake City, UT : BWE Video, c1998.
     2 videocassettes (130 min.)
Narrator: Morgan Freeman.
Cinematography, Don Lenzer; editor, Kate Amend; original music composed and conducted by Lee Holdridge.
Originally produced as motion picture in 1997.
Synopsis: This documentary traces intimate stories of courage in the harrowing years between the end of World War II and the formation of the state of Israel. Includes archival footage, original broadcasts and personal testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors -- Interviews. Refugees, Jewish. Israel -- History. Israel and the diaspora. Documentary films.

DS145 .L825 1993 VIDEOTAPE
     The Longest hatred [videorecording] : The history of anti-Semitism / a nucleus production for Thames Television and WGBH -- Princeton, N.J. : Distributed by Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1993.
     2 videocassettes (2 hours, 30 min.)
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Synopsis: Traces anti-Semitism from its earliest manifestations in antiquity to the recent ominous outbreaks in Germany, Russia, and elsewhere.
Subjects: Antisemitism. Jews -- Persecutions. Jews -- Segregation. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

DS135 .G4 B475 1997 Videotape
     The Lost children of Berlin [videorecording] / [presented by] Steven Spielberg in association with Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, and Fogwood Films ; executive producers, June Beallor & James Moll ; producer, Adrian Milne ; director, Elizabeth McIntyre -- New York, N.Y. : A&E Home Video : Distributed in the U.S. by New Video Group, 1997.
     1 videocassette (50 min.)
Anthony Hopkins, host.
Synopsis: Fifty holocaust survivors from around the world reunite at the recently re-opened school in Berlin. This presentation gives voice to the innocent victims of Nazi Germany.
Subjects: Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany -- Berlin. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Berlin. Jewish children -- Germany -- Berlin. Jews -- Germany -- Berlin. Berlin (Germany) -- Ethnic relations.

PN1997 .M3978 1988
     Matsor [videorecording] / orekh, Dano Shik ; mefik be-foal, Mikha Kagan -- Teaneck, N.J. : Ergo Media, c1988.
     1 videocassette (95 min.) (Israeli cinema)
Alternate title: Siege [videorecording]
In Hebrew with English subtitles.
Based on an idea by Gila Almagor.
Gila Almagor, Dahn Ben Amotz, Yehoram Gaon.
Screenplay, Dahn Ben Amotz and Gilberto Tofano; photography, David Gurfinkel; music, Yohanan Zarai; editor, Danny Shik.
Videocassette release of the 1970 motion picture.
Synopsis: An Israeli woman loses her husband during the Six Day War. Her husband's friends want her to remain an ever-mourning widow, but she wants to break away from her past and normalize her life.
Subjects: Feature films. War widows -- Israel -- Drama. War films.

DS109.15 .M46 1995 Videotape
     Melodies of Jerusalem [videorecording]-- Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media, Inc., 1995.
     1 videocassette (28 min.)
Ruchama Raz.
Synopsis: The unique sights, sounds and flavor of Jerusalem are captured in this musical ode to the city by Ruchama Raz, one of Israel's foremost female vocalists. Filmed throughout the city's many diverse neighborhoods, Ms. Raz performs a unique collection of old and new tunes. The history, beauty and emotional ties to the Eternal City are expressed in the lyrics and music of many favorite songs, including Hakotel (The Wall), Jerusalem of Gold, and Lach Yerushalayim. Historic photos as well as magnificent footage of Jerusalem add a unique touch to this very beautiful video.
Subjects: Jerusalem -- Description -- 1981-

DS135 .G3315 M46 1995 Videotape
     Memory of the camps [videorecording] / producer, Sergei Nolbandov ; script, Colin Wills ; for Frontline, produced and edited by Stephanie Tepper ; [produced for] the Documentary Consortium [by WGBH Boston] -- [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, c1997.
     1 videocassette (59 min.)
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Editors, Stewart McAllister, Peter Tanner; narrator, Trevor Howard.
Originally broadcast by PBS on March 21, 1995 as an Encore presentation of: Frontline.
Intended audience: junior and senior high students.
Synopsis: Presents archival motion picture footage taken by British and American photographers documenting the conditions Allied troops found when they liberated Nazi concentration camps. Includes scenes of the gas chambers, medical experimentation labs, crematoria, and starving survivors and the dead in Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and other camps. Stored in a vault in London's Imperial War Museum in London since 1945, the film is presented unedited and with the original script meant to accompany it.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Europe -- Sources. World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Sources. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Sources. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

D810 .J4 M41492 1989 Videotape
     Memory of the camps [videorecording] / WGBH Educational Foundation -- Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, c1989. (Frontline (Television program))
     1 videocassette (60 min.)
Videocassette release of television program made in 1985.
Produced for Documentary Consortium by WGBH, Boston.
Producer and editor, Stephanie Tepper ; script, Coling Wills.
Host, Judy Woodruff ; narrator, Trevor Howard.
Synopsis: Documentary footage filmed by Allied Forces army cameramen when they entered the Nazi death camps in 1945 and only recently discovered in the archives of the Imperial War Museum in London. Scenes from Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald, and other camps.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Sources. World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Sources. Documentary films.

PN1997 .M4347 1997 Videotape
     Mendel [videorecording] / presented by Northern Lights -- New York, NY : b First Run Features, c1997.
     1 videocassette (93 min.)
In Norwegian with English subtitles.
Written and directed by Alexander Rosler ; producer, Axel Helgeland ; subtitles by Eric Scobie.
Thomas Jungling Sorensen, Hans Kremer, Teresa Harder, Martin Meingast, Bjorn Sundquist.
Synopsis: Nine_year_old Mendel, the youngest son of a family of German Jews, struggles to come to grips with his new environment after they move to Norway in the 1950s.
Subjects: World War, 1939_1945 __ Refugees __ Drama. Jews __ Norway __ Drama. Foreign films.

HN80 .N5 M573 1987 VIDEOTAPE
     The Miracle of Intervale Avenue [videorecording] / an Irving Rappaport production in association with Landseer Film & Television Productions ; director, Ken Howard -- Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media, c1987.
     1 videocassette (65 min.) (American Jewish experience)
Made in 1983.
Synopsis: The South Bronx in New York City, an area that was once predominately Jewish, is now a decaying neighborhood whose population is largely Hispanic and Black. This program examines the people who choose to live and work in the South Bronx, in particular the tiny community of elderly Jews determined to survive.
Subjects: South Bronx (New York, N.Y.) New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions. Jewish aged -- New York (N.Y.)

PN1997 .M5819 1990 VIDEOTAPE
     Mirele Efros [videocassette] / Ergo Media -- Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media, 1990.
     1 videocassette (91 min.)
Videocassette release of 1938 film.
Yiddish with English subtitles.
Screenplay by Ossip Dymow and Josef Berne ; Directed by Josef Berne ; Produced by Roman Rebush ; Music by Vladimir Heifetz.
Berta Gersten, Michael Rosenberg, Ruth Elbaum, Albert Lipton.
Synopsis: Berta Gersten plays Mirele, a noble, dignified widow and successful businesswoman who comes into conflict with the daughter-in-law she chose for her eldest son. Her generosity and love for her son lead to her undoing. Based on Jacob Gordin's popular Yiddish play, the film is set in turn-of-the-century Grodno. A classic study in the relations between mothers- and daughters-in-law.
Subjects: Feature films.

PN1997 .M67 2004 DVD
     Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran [videorecording] / Michele et Laurent Petin presentent une production ARP en coproduction avec France 3 Cinema avec Canal+ ; un film de Francois Dupeyron ; producers, Laurent Petin, Michele Petin ; writers, Francois Dupeyron -- [S.l.] : Sony Pictures Classics ; Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2004]
     1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. Title from container: Monsieur Ibrahim.
In French with optional subtitles in English, Portuguese, or Spanish.
Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger, Gilbert Melki, Isabelle Renauld, Lola Naymark, Anne Suarez.
Director of photography, Remy Chevrin ; production designer, Katia Wyszkop ; editor, Dominique Faysse ; costume designer, Catherine Bouchard ; visual effects, Fabien Coupez.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2003.
Based on the novel Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt.
MPAA rating: R; some sexual content.
Special features: Omar Sharif audio commentary.
Synopsis: An elderly Turkish Muslim grocer befriends a lonely teenage Jewish boy in a working class section of Paris.
Subjects: Father figures -- Drama. Friendship -- Drama. Paris (France) -- Drama. Amistad -- Teatro. bidex. -- Paris (Francia) -- Teatro. bidex. Chiffres de pere Drame.

ML3776 .M87 1987 VIDEO, RECORDING
     Music in Jerusalem [videorecording] / produced for the Jerusalem Music Center by Menakhem Shuval ; Ruth Leon, executive producer ; produced and directed by Paul Salinger -- Teaneck, N.J. : Ergo Media, 1987.
     1 videocassette (60 min.) (Contemporary Israel)
Introduced by Isaac Stern as "A report of work in progress ... at the Jerusalem Music Center."
Synopsis: Includes rehearsals and coaching sessions with young Israeli musicians and well-known musical figures such as Mr. Stern, Pablo Casals, Gina Bachauer, Alexander Schneider. Music includes selections from Mozart symphonies K. 319 and K. 201, Bach's piano concerto in D minor, Mozart and Schubert trios, Prokofiev's violin sonata no. 2, and other works.
Subjects: Music -- Jerusalem. Music videos. Video recordings -- Jerusalem.

M1001 .M3 NO.2 1989 VIDEOTAPE
     Musical masterpiece at Masada [videorecording] / a Benny Boret, Gabriel Gozland, Yair Katz production ; producer, Yoram Ben-Yair ; video director, Dave Heather ; produced by Tel-Ad Jerusalem Studios Ltd. -- W. Long Beach, NJ : distributed by Kultur International Films, [1989], c1988.
     1 videocassette (100 min.) (Music series)
Dolby mono., stero. compatible.
Title on container: Mahler's Symphony no. 2, "Resurrection," at Masada.
Sylvia Greenberg, soprano ; Florence Quivar, mezzo-soprano ; Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta, conductor ; National Choir (Rinat), Stanley Sperber, director ; Tel Aviv Philharmonic Choir, Steven Sloane, director ; Ihud Choir, Avner Itai, director ; Gregory Peck, Yves Montand, hosts.
Synopsis: Records the October 13, 1988, performance of Mahler's 2nd Symphony at the foot of the fortress of Masada, as the grande finale of Israel's 40th Anniversary Celebration.
Subjects: Symphonies. Israel -- Anniversaries, etc.

PN1997 .M4385 1987 Videotape
     My Michael [videorecording] : Israeli society, a relationship under siege / Israeli Cinema -- Teaneck, N.J. : Ergo Media Inc., c1987.
     1 video cassette (95 min.)(A lens on Israel)
Based on a novel by Amos Oz.
In Hebrew with English subtitles.
Executive producer, Shlomi Cohen ; director, Dan Wolman ; screenplay, Ester Mor and Dan Wolman ; director of photography, Adam Greenberg ; music, Alex Cagan ; editor, Ed Orshan.
Efrat Lavie, Oded Kotler, Dina Roitkof, Moti Mizrachi, Israel Segal, Iliza Loria.
Synopsis: Two intelligent young adults find each other and marry in a divided Jerusalem of the late 1950's. Michael, a responsible and hard-working scientist is comfortable in the arrangement, in contrast to Hanna who finds herself unfulfilled by the petit bourgeois life she is leading.
Subjects: Feature films.

PN1997 .N25 1996
     Nadia [videorecording] = Nadyah, sipurah shel talmidah arviyah / Argo Films release ; executive producer, David Lipkind -- Teaneck, NJ : Ergo Media, Inc., 1996.
     1 videocassette (90 min.)
In Hebrew with English subtitles.
Script, Eitan Green, Galila Ron-Feder, Amnon Rubinstein; music, Yoni Rechter; editor, David Tur; producer, Ehud Ben-Sach; director, Amnon Rubinstein.
Hana Azulai-Hasfary, Yuval Banai, Meir Banai, Yosef Abu-Varda, Salwa Nakara-Hadad, Ossy Hilel, Ri Rosenfield, Meir Swisa.
Synopsis: 16-year-old Arab girl in Arab village in Israel enrolls in Jewish high school to improve her chances for higher education. Both Arab and Jewish classmates react to her with uncertainty and prejudice.

D804.7 .N29 1997 Videotape
     Nazi gold [videorecording] / Consortium of Public Television Stations -- Washington, DC : PBS Video, 1997.
     1 videocassette (60 min.)
Produced jointly by KCTS Seattle, WGBH Boston, WNET New York, WPBT Miami, WTVS Detroit ; written and directed by Christopher Olgiati.
Originally broadcast as an episode of Frontline.
General public.
Synopsis: Examines Switzerland's role in supporting Nazi Germany and the events that allowed Swiss border police to turn fleeing Jews away, into the hands of the Gestapo. Also addresses the Swiss response as they confront Holocaust survivors seeking reparations.
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Reparations. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). Jewish property -- Switzerland. Jews -- Europe -- Claims. Switzerland -- Foreign economic relations -- 1918-1945. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

PN1995.9.A68 N529 1989 Videotape
     Noce en Galilee [videorecording] = Urs al-Jalil / Marissa Films-Bruxelles, les Productions audiovisuelles-Paris ; scenario original, Michel Khleifi ; production et mise en scene, Michel Khleifi -- New York, N.Y. : Kino International Corp., [1989]
     1 videocassette (113 min.)
Title on label: Wedding in Galilee.
In Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles.
Akham Khouri, Youssef Abou Wardeh, Ouliano Merkhamis, Ian Chemi.
Originally released in 1987 as motion picture.
Synopsis: The elder of a Palestinian village in Israel is given permission to hold a traditional wedding for his son on the condition that the Israeli military governor and his staff be guests of honor at the ceremony.
Subjects: Foreign films. Feature films. Motion pictures, Arabic. Motion pictures, Hebrew.

DS135 .P6 N85 1900z Videotape
     Nuit et brouillard = Night and fog [videorecording] / realisation, Alain Resnais ; une co-production Como-films, Argos-films, Cocinor ; Le Retour / les Services americains d'information en collaboration avec L'armee americaine et avec le concours d'anciens prisonniers francais -- [s.l.] Matinee Classics, [1990?]
     1 videocassette
Le retour originally produced as a motion picture in 1946. Nuit et brouillard originally released in France in 1955 as a motion picture.
In French with English subtitles.
Le retour: director, Henri Cartier-Bresson ; narrator, Claude Roy; music, Robert Lannoy. Nuit et brouillard: producer, Edouard Muszka ; consultants, Olga Wormser, Henri Michel ; narrative, Jean Cayrol ; music, Hanns Eisler.
Synopsis: Nuit et brouillard: Black and white film footage shot inside Hitler's concentration camp at Auschwitz is contrasted with the peaceful surroundings ten years after its disbandment -- Le retour: an understated account of the liberation of French prisoners from Nazi concentration camps. Shows the removal of the prisoners to temporary hospitals and pictures joyful reunions with families and friends in Paris.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps. Auschwitz (Concentration camp).

DS135 .G28 O54 1996 Videotape
     One day in the life of Oni [videorecording] / written, produced and directed by Sy Rotter -- Washington, DC : Documentaries International Film & Video Foundation, 1996.
     1 videocassette (28 min.) + 1 discussion guide ([12] p. ; 19 cm.)
Narrator, Theodore Bikel ; editors, Sam Green, Tracy Baumgardner.
Discussion guide in pocket.
Synopsis: Oni, a Jewish settlement high in the Caucasian mountains of Georgia, celebrated 3 unique events on September 17, 1995: the 100th anniversary of its synagogue, the 2500th year of a continuing Jewish community presence in these mountains, and the emigration to Israel of another of their rapidly diminishing families. This documentary introduces you to the settlement itself, to the mayor, the rabbi, to Jewish residents, to distinguished visitors such as President Eduard Schevardnadze, and to the spirit of a people who are keeping faith with their destiny afte