Search results: Jewish Studies

Array Array A Deal with the Devil? A Deal with the Devil?

A Deal with the Devil? A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL? tells the incredibly unlikely story of the most dramatic and controversial agreement of the 20th century: a deal made between the Nazis and Jewish leaders in Palestine to save German-Jewish lives.
Array Array The Darien Dilemma The Darien Dilemma

The Darien Dilemma The Darien Dilemma delves into the fate of 1,000 Jews on the Danube in 1941, their survival contingent on a Mossad agent's decisions in Istanbul. Featuring interviews and reenactments, it uncovers the complexities of wartime rescue.
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Rafting to Bombay In Rafting to Bombay, Israeli director Erez Laufer intertwines his family's historical escape from the Nazis with their experience during Mumbai's 2008 terror attack, reflecting on the enduring refuge Mumbai provided Jewish refugees during World War II.
Murder of a Hatmaker (Assassinat d’une Modiste) Born in 1901, Odette Bernstein later became Fanny Berger, a successful young and independent Parisian hatmaker. Her business thrived until Vichy's anti-Jewish laws. Caught while fleeing, she was interned in Drancy and deported to Auschwitz in 1943.
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Dear Fredy Dear Fredy explores Fredy Hirsch's life, a brave Jewish gay man who created a daycare in Auschwitz, bringing brief joy to children amidst terror. His enduring spirit faced immense persecution and planned a failed uprising, marking a significant chapter in gay history
The Lost Key / La Llave Perdida

The Lost Key / La Llave Perdida The Lost Key, an award-winning film featured on Netflix, reveals lost teachings to turn a sexual relationship into a healthy, spiritual experience where two people become One.
Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely

Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely How did we come to this moment, where free speech issues have never felt more complicated and urgent, and where the nation is wondering a new: what price are we willing to pay for free speech?
Slowly Here Below. Four Monologues

Slowly Here Below. Four Monologues How can life go on after the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald? Four Holocaust survivors talk about their lives afterwards.
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Kinderland The tale of a century-old rivalry between two progressive Jewish summer camps and their attempt at a newfound alliance, inspiring unity within today’s divided world.
Array Array Imaginary Witness Imaginary Witness

Imaginary Witness Through film excerpts of Hollywood's most important Holocaust movies this documentary tells the story of the American film industry's complex and contradictory responses to the horrors of Nazi Germany.
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Muranow When the living disregard those buried below, their ghosts wage war against this indifference.
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Leaving Paradise Discovery of their Jewish roots threatens the communal life of the family in Brazil.
Yerusalem: The Incredible Story of Ethiopian Jewry "Yerusalem" is a personal stories of people who took part in these events, and through them, bring to the screen an up to date view along with its hardships and hopes
RUTH – Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words The improbable story of how Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who couldn’t get a job after graduating at the top of her law class, became a revered Justice of the Supreme Court and icon for gender equality and human rights
SHOAH & Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah | Special offer | Available in North America only. “First-Ever Digital Release of Shoah with the Oscar Nominee, Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of Shoah a Vital Educational Counterpart”.
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SHOAH Twelve years in the making, SHOAH is Lanzmann’s monumental epic on the Holocaust and features interviews with survivors, bystanders and perpetrators in 14 countries
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Covered Up A personal journey by Rachel, an ultra-Orthodox director, through marriage, divorce, matchmaking, and head covering, records the world of ultra-Orthodox women and gives voice to their inner world for the first time
Slaves of the Sword: Yitzhak Rabin

Slaves of the Sword: Yitzhak Rabin Rabin, the quintessential Israeli fighter, what drove him to turn diplomacy, to politics to the post of Prime Minister? Until Israeli militarism nurtured, among others, by Rabin, turned against him: he was assassinated by a Jewish fanatic
Slaves of the Sword: Moshe Dayan

Slaves of the Sword: Moshe Dayan “Rocking the boat is his favorite tactic, to sway it sufficiently for the helmsman to lose his grip” Moshe Dayan an enigma- a warrior, a farmer, a man of the world? A non conformist who defied norms and conventions
The Age of the Generals: Begin

The Age of the Generals: Begin I hope to be remembered as someone who prevented civil war- this is more important than having been the supreme commander of the underground movement, prime minister or the peace treaty with Egypt. Begin in his own words
Slaves of the Sword: Ariel Sharon

Slaves of the Sword: Ariel Sharon Sharon incorporated reliance on naked, brutal power when dealing with the Palestinians. Deviant in his tactics, he has changed the map of Israel almost to the point of no return. Until he too became a victim of his own manipulations
Array Array The Inner Tour The Inner Tour

The Inner Tour The Inner Tour is a sightseeing tour of the State of Israel of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank. Tourists in their homeland. The windows of the bus serve as a two-way mirror at the Palestinian tourists, at Israeli society
Slaves of the Sword: Golda

Slaves of the Sword: Golda The ultimate Jewish Mother, Golda Meir, turned out to be the Israeli Iron Lady, neither more civilian nor more feminine in her decisions than her male counterparts. She continued the power politics of Israeli leaders and personified Israel’s unyielding stand
Rabin – Shivah in November

Rabin – Shivah in November Itzhak Rabin was assassinated in the middle of his groundbreaking peace initiative, by a political opponent. This is an authentic documentation of the immediate reactions of grief in Israel, before grasping that the course of history was forever changed
Array Array The First Sea The First Sea

The First Sea A touching story from the midst of the Israel-Palestine conflict
In the Valley of the Wupper

In the Valley of the Wupper 1992. In Wuppertal, in Germany, two skinheads killed a man who claimed to be Jewish. Amos Gitai questions the witnesses, the residents, and the protagonists of the trial.
Give Peace a chance: Writers speak

Give Peace a chance: Writers speak An intellectual journey: Arab and Jewish authors discuss the utopian aspects of their work and present their views on how the situation in the Middle East could improve
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The Viewing Booth Would seeing how we see change the way we think?
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King Bibi The Life and Performances of Benjamin Netanyahu
Array Array House Call – Vika House Call – Vika

House Call – Vika We follow the medical team aiding Vika, a single mother with cancer, during her final days.
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Wall Filmmaker Moran Ifergan, takes us on a year-long journey into the women's section of prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, as she remembers the religion she left in her late teens.
Array Array Yolki Palki Yolki Palki

Yolki Palki Through the stories of Russian immigrants scattered across Israel and outside of it – the image of the last great wave of Russian immigration is unfolded in all its facets.
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RBG Hero. Icon. Dissenter. RBG explores the life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Array Array Happy Purim Happy Purim

Happy Purim Purim, the happiest Jewish holiday. The celebrations are intense and high energy and balanced by other more serious aspects of Purim - giving cash to those in need.
Family Matters (Girsa Deyankuta)

Family Matters (Girsa Deyankuta) With their parents' divorce, a family is divided between the two conflicting worlds: that of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and of the secular
Array Array Into the North Into the North

Into the North A coming-of-age story of young Czech Jewish refugees who were saved by Danish farmers during the WWII.
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Torn Can one be a Catholic priest and an Observant Jew at the same time? 12 years after he was ordained as a Polish Catholic priest, Romuald Waszkinel discovers that he was born to Jewish parents, and that his name was Jacob Weksler.
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Café Nagler During the 1920s, Café Nagler was the hottest place in Berlin. Mor, the film's director embarks on a journey to find out what's left of her family's legendary café.
Array Array Death and the Maiden Death and the Maiden

Death and the Maiden Shortly after World War II, over 1000 paintings were found in a Cellar in southern France, by a Young-Jewish artist called Charlotte Salomon
A Trip to the Other Planet

A Trip to the Other Planet An animated portrayal of Jewish writer and holocaust survivor Yehiel De-Nur's hallucinatory journey back to the "Other Planet" of Auschwitz.
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Promises The most widely used educational media tool teaching the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a beautiful and deeply moving portrait of seven children on both sides of the divide
Surviving Hitler: A Love Story

Surviving Hitler: A Love Story A gripping film that combines simple romantic narrative, tense wartime story, and eye-opening links to monumental historical events.
The House on August street

The House on August street The story of the Jewish Children’s Home in Auguststrasse, Berlin, and its heroic transfer to Israel by Beate Berger once the Nazi Party rose to power.
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Vienna’s Lost Daughters The exceptional story of eight women who left their native Vienna during the war as part of the Kinder Transport and remade their lives in New York City
Array Array The Judge The Judge

The Judge Aharon Barak, controversial President of the Supreme Court of Israel and author of the Law syllabus staple, "The Judge in a Democracy", bares his soul on camera for the very first time.
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Liebe Perla This film focuses on the friendship between Perla Ubsitsch, a dwarf who survived Dr. Mengele's cruel experiments in Auschwitz, and a researcher Hannelore Witkovsky. Together they search for an old film featuring Perla and her siblings.
Array Array The Women Pioneers The Women Pioneers

The Women Pioneers The Women/Pioneers uncovers the passion, struggle and pain of the female pioneers who came to Palestine a hundred years ago with the dreams of creating a new world and a new woman
Array Array Israel LTD Israel LTD

Israel LTD “The Israel Experience" is one of the largest Zionist outreach projects in recent years, with the aim to create new allies for the government of Israel. To this end, it takes young Jews on guided tours of the “Holy Land”.
Array Array Harbour of Hope Harbour of Hope

Harbour of Hope In Spring 1945 Red Cross liberated over 30.000 of concentration camp survivors and rescued them to peaceful Sweden.
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Watermarks The women from the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna reunite on their 'old turf' 65 years after they fled Nazi Austria.
Array Array Gypsy Davy Gypsy Davy

Gypsy Davy When a blond Californian with Alabama roots becomes a Flamenco guitarist in Andalucian boots, fathering five children to five different women, what happens along the way and behind the scenes?
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Luxuries A critical look at the Israeli control of the flow of goods into Gaza , revealing the absurdity and cruelty of a policy that attempts to distinguish between necessity and luxury.
Array Array My Sweet Canary My Sweet Canary

My Sweet Canary An exuberant musical and cinematic journey across Greece, and Turkey in search of Roza Eskenazi, an artist whose music shaped the soundtrack of the region for almost a century.
Array Array The Cemetery Club The Cemetery Club

The Cemetery Club For over two decades, a group of women and men have been meeting weekly at Israel’s National Cemetery to debate philosophy, read poetry, eat lunch and determine the fate of the Jewish nation.
The Tale of Nicolai and the Law of Return With humor, irony and the unconventional fusion of different genre styles, the film tells the story of a Romanian worker who realizes his Jewish roots can change his life.