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1) Taxi blues
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 110 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
In a world filled with hustlers and black marketers, Shlykov, a hard-working, anti-semitic taxi driver, is pushed over the edge when Lyosha, a Jewish saxophonist who personifies everything he despises, stiffs him for a fare. Shlykov tracks the irresponsible musician down and the two form a bizarre love-hate relationship. At first, class and race division make friendship for these two nearly impossible, until they both learn they aren't so different...
2) Indignation
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set against the backdrop of the Korean War in 1951, the storyline focuses on a bright and promising young man from a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, who gets a scholarship to attend a small college in Ohio and thus avoids being drafted,but whose ethical principles and nonconformism set him to clash with the people around him and, most importantly, with the dean of the college.
3) One life
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anthony Hopkins stars as Nicholas Winton in this remarkable true story of a young London stockbroker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. The film alternates between Winton’s younger years, where he's portrayed by Johnny Flynn, as he navigates personal risks and bureaucratic hurdles to save lives, and his later years, reflecting on his legacy.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish woman comes to America in the 1890s, only to discover that her husband, Jake, has given up the ways of the old country, and taken up with a new girlfriend, and a new life.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen ; Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD with special features
Language
Deutsch
Description
A family on the run for their lives finds themselves in a beautiful but utterly unfamiliar world in this drama based on the autobiographical novel by Stefanie Zweig. Walter Redlich (Merab Ninidze) is a successful Jewish lawyer living in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Aware of the increasing dangers of remaining in Germany, Walter seeks exile on a farm in Kenya, while his socially prominent wife, Jettel (Juliane Koehler), and his young...
6) The infidel
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Meet Mahmud Nasir, loving husband, doting father, and something of a relaxed Muslim. He may not be the most observant, but in his heart he is a true Muslim. After his mother's death, Mahmud finds his birth certificate, which reveals that he was adopted at birth and he's Jewish, with the real name of Solly Shimshillewitz!
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Pool shark and hustler Jaeckie Zucker is up to his ears in debt. In a stroke of luck, his mother dies and leaves an inheritance. Before he can cash in, his mother has requested the difficult task of reconciling with his estranged Orthodox brother Samuel.
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