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Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Since 1925 the Streit’s matzo factory has sat in a low-slung tenement building on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. While other matzo companies have modernized, Streit’s remained a piece of living history, churning out 40 percent of the nation’s unleavened bread on pre-War machinery as old as the factory itself. In a neighborhood where the Jewish immigrants long ago moved on, in a nation where progress and profits trump all else, where manufacturing...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 52 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the Waks Family...With 17 children to the same two parents, it’s one of the largest families in Australia. Everyday life in the Waks household is a logistical challenge of monumental proportions. There are two minibuses to move the family around and the kitchen in its suburban Melbourne home has five ovens for kosher cooking. The family follows an orthodox form of Judaism. School, work, synagogue and socialising all take place within...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A web of family secrets unravels in this moving documentary following a family fractured by war. Two brothers, Izak and Shep, were born inside the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in 1945 and separated as babies, never told of the other’s existence. Nearly 70 years later, the discovery of family records leads the brothers to an emotional reunion with their elderly mother, Aida, who hid more from Izak and Shep than just each other. Official Selection...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (70 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Before the arrival of Miami Vice and MTV Spring Break, South Beach was home to the largest cluster of Jewish retirees in the country. Drawn by the small apartments, low cost of living, sunny weather, and thriving cultural life, they came by the thousands seeking refuge from the Northeast's brutal winters. By the 1970s, these former New Yorkers had turned from seasonal visitors to year-round residents, making Miami Beach home to a population that was...
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
The final film from groundbreaking auteur Chantal Akerman, NO HOME MOVIE is a portrait of her relationship with her mother, Natalia, a Holocaust survivor and familiar presence in many of her daughter's films. At once disarmingly intimate and formally rigorous, NO HOME MOVIE is a singualr exploration of family, memory and history.
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When visionary Jewish immigrant Jacques Bolsey invents the Bolex in the 1920's, he puts the first home movie camera in the hands of everyday folks, fomenting a film revolution that still inspires artists to this day. Nearly a century later, Alyssa Bolsey uncovers his long lost archive and journeys to discover the man behind the machine through his personal and professional struggles.
7) Marceline
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (76 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
MARCELINE. A WOMAN. A CENTURY is a fascinating portrait of the persevering French filmmaker, writer, and Holocaust survivor Marceline Loridan-Ivens (1928-2018).
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (70 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Kutsher's Country Club was the last surviving Jewish resort in the Catskills. One of the legendary Borscht Belt hotels during its heyday, Kutsher's was family owned and operated for over 100 years. Exploring the full Dirty Dancing-era Catskills experience— and how it changed American pop culture in the comedy, sports and vacation industries—this award-winning documentary captures a last glimpse of a lost world as it disappears before our eyes....
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
I HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN YOU provides an intimate portrait of famed Nazi hunter and humanitarian, Simon Wiesenthal. This rare biography looks closely at the sacrifices made by one of history's bravest and boldest.
10) Unorthodox
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
At sixteen, Anna Wexler had broken away from her Orthodox Jewish community in New Jersey, rejecting its religious doctrine and social restrictions, and severing ties to her family. This led to her running away from home, sleeping on the streets, and experimenting with sex and drugs with friends who had also left the Orthodox world. However, after studying in Israel, her friends had a change of heart and returned to the fold. Feeling betrayed, Anna...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Like many survivors of the Holocaust, after World War II, Saul and Ruby moved to America, started families and careers, grew old, and retired to South Florida. For them, retirement could have been the last chapter in their story. But then they decided to start a klezmer band, named the Holocaust Survivor Band in order to celebrate life!
12) Witness Theater
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Aron is 88 years old, Eazek is 94 and Claudine is 89. Over seventy years ago, although they lost their entire families, they survived the holocaust and resettled in New York City. Now they are sharing their stories in a unique program led by a drama therapist with high-school students in Brooklyn. The hope is that this sharing will sensitize the students and give some closure to the adult survivors after all these years. The Witness Theater workshop...
Publisher
Seventh Art Releasing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Set almost entirely in a Chinese restaurant, DREAMING OF A JEWISH CHRISTMAS is an offbeat, irreverent musical documentary that tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters, including Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks, who wrote the soundtrack to Christianity’s most musical holiday. It’s an amazing tale of immigrant outsiders who became irreplaceable players in pop culture’s mainstream...
14) Itzhak
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
From Schubert to Strauss, Bach to Brahms, Mozart to…Billy Joel, Itzhak Perlman’s violin playing transcends mere performance to evoke the celebrations and struggles of real life; “praying with the violin,” says renowned Tel Aviv violinmaker Amnon Weinstein. This enchanting documentary looks beyond the sublime musician, to see the polio survivor whose parents emigrated from Poland to Israel, the young man who struggled to be taken seriously...
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (9 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A 90 year old Jewish woman reflects on her life’s experiences as she prepares to try bacon for the first time. Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction - Sundance Film Festival 2016 Official Selection - Toronto International Film Festival 2015
16) Genocide
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
1982.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
GENOCIDE, an Academy Award winning documentary, takes a harrowing look at life during the Holocaust. Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor lend their voices to this heartbreaking historical account. **Academy Awards** Winner for Best Documentary, Features.
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Using instruments as passports for millennia, wandering Jewish musicians are still among us. From ram's horn to beatbox, from Argentina to Uganda, THE WANDERING MUSE explores the kaleidoscope of Jewish identities through the ever-changing music of the diaspora. In constant motion, the film is a series of encounters with Jewish musicians from around the world. Shattering stereotypes and upending expectations, each scene brings us closer to the nomadic...
18) Why The Jews?
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (70 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The stunning accomplishments of the Jews raise a question no film has dared ask before. How do they do it? Some of the world’s most prominent thinkers tackle a mystery shrouded in ignorance and prejudice. They tear back the curtain on a taboo and draw a startling link between a people’s achievements and the darkest hours in its history.
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When two stolen children reappear after 40 years, their eccentric family is thrown into disarray. Attempting to put the past to rest and discover the truth, Ben-Moshe and his family embark on a remarkable journey from Australia, to England and Iran, in an attempt to unravel the dense web of secrets, and put the past to rest. Best Documentary nominee at the **Jewish International Film Festival** and the **UK International Jewish Film Festival**.
20) Kabbalah Me
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 81 min.)
Language
English
Description
Kabbalah Me is a personal journey into the esoteric spiritual phenomenon known as Kabbalah. Throughout history, Kabbalah was studied by only the most holy Talmud scholars. The misinformation, innuendo and prohibition surrounding Kabbalah kept its wisdom from most Jews; many were even unaware of its existence. In Kabbalah Me, director Steven Bram embarks on a spiritual investigation that leads him to reunite with the Hasidic branch of his family and...
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