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Filmmaker Lewis Cohen intelligently explores the origins and evolution of the myth of the wealthy Jew. In 2006, Ilan Halimi, a French Jewish salesman is lured to the outskirts of Paris where he is kidnapped and later mu
Romaniotes: the distinct Greek-Jewish community in the city of Ioannina, with customs and traditions that differ from those of the Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews, whose traces are lost in the depths of time. The Romaniotes
Filmmaker and journalist Francine Pelletier looks at Canadian author Mordecai Richler in the context of the Jewish authors and comedians of his era—Phillip Roth, Saul Bellow, Mel Brooks, Lenny Bruce and others. She explo
In 1947/48, it was not only 500,000 Palestinians who were displaced during the Israel war of Independence, but 850,000 Jews were also expelled from their ancient homes in Arab countries by Islamic regimes + their murdero
The history of Jewish people in Russia up until the 1917 revolution.
Documentary about the Argentine-Israeli Bibas-Silberman family, victims of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, at Kibbutz Nir Oz. Shiri, her husband Yarden, and their children Ariel and Kfir were kidnapped, while Shiri'
A silent documentary film depicting Jews and Jewish communities in Ottoman Palestine/Eretz Israel.
This film examines the dramatic surge of interest among American Jews in the spiritual teachings of Buddhism. Jews, who make up 2% of the population, account for some 30% of non-Asian American Buddhists. Many of them ar
550,000 Jewish American men and women fought in World War II. In their own words, veterans both famous and unknown (from Hollywood director Mel Brooks to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger) bring their war experie
A documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq.
At the turn of the century, Sephardic Jews fled the turmoil of their homeland to start a new life in America. Filled with interviews, archival photos and dozens of Ladino phrases, this slice of Northwest history captures
With the assassination in 1948 of the head of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels, by the state security, new times begin in the relationship between the Soviet government and the Jews.
Virtual moving spaces, emphasized by sound, refer to the biblical passage of the people of Israel through the Red Sea. This is the language with which Prof. Krzysztof Kiwerski has been delighting and surprising viewers f
On August 24, 1941, a meeting of “representatives of the Jewish people” was convened.
Filmmaker Jeff Lieberman takes us on an unforgettable journey to Nigeria where the Igbo people, in researching their roots and history, find convincing cultural connections with Judaism. We are introduced to leaders of t
A small group of South Americans long to affirm their faith. Their ancestors - European Jews - were forced to convert during the Spanish Inquisition. Isolated in Catholic countries, rejected by local Jewish communities,
In order to facilitate the destruction of Poland's three million Jews, the Nazis forced them to establish Jewish Councils responsible for administration of the Polish ghettos.
In an article on the Vatican and the holocaust at Jewish Virtual Library it says: “Pope Pius XII’s (1876-1958) actions during the Holocaust remain controversial. For much of the war, he maintained a public front of indif
About the Jews from Northeast Spain, one of the few world sites considered as Jewish spiritual resting places and the home of Nahmanides, a Kabbalah scholar.
In the first half of the 20th century, at least 80000 Egyptian jews lived in Harmony with the rest of the Egyptian society, in 2014 only 12 Jewish Egyptian ladies are still courageously living In Cairo, refusing to leave