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In a bold and moving book that is sure to spark heated debate, the novelist and cultural critic James Carroll maps the profoundly troubling two-thousand-year course of the Church's battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has provoked in his own life as a Catholic. More than a chronicle of religion, this dark history is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture. The Church's failure...
84) The Lesson
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2020.
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At age 14, every child attending school in Germany is brought face to face with their nation's past during World War II. For many, this means confronting the reality of the Holocaust for the very first time. THE LESSON explores how new generations in Germany grapple with this tragic history, following a group of children coming of age in the rural town of Fröndenberg. Filmed from 2014 to 2019, the film examines how, despite Germany's reputation for...
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Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2015.
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In 1945, when the Allies liberated the concentration camps, they discovered thousands of secretly created artworks. With unprecedented access to paintings, drawings, etchings and sculptures held in collections around the world, BECAUSE I WAS A PAINTER conducts a gripping and fascinating investigation into art that captures, reflects and inspires in difficult times. *"BECAUSE I WAS A PAINTER maintains a funereal rhythm, alternating images of artworks...
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Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2020.
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In 2015, 94-year-old former German SS officer Oskar Gröning, nicknamed “THE ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ”, went on trial in his home country, charged with complicity in the murder of 300,000 Jews at Auschwitz in 1944. Gröning’s trial made headlines around the world as a frail old man took the stand to face his former victims. Official Selection at the **Palm Springs International Film Festival** and Hot **Docs Canadian International Documentary...
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GR Consulting
Pub. Date
2022.
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Through on-camera interviews, compelling footage, and historical photographs, the film tells a positive immigration story and highlights the dynamic contributions Jewish Americans made to shaping the Western United States. The independent not-for-profit feature length documentary is produced by Electric Yolk Media and directed by award-winning filmmaker Amanda Kinsey. The film premiered at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival in early 2022.
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Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2016.
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In this documentary, survivors from World War II tell their stories as they view themselves on an archive reel shot on April 28, 1945, the day they were liberated from the concentration camps. In the archive film they are anonymous faces in large crowds of refugees. But they all have a name. And they all have a story to tell. Stories about escape, survival and starting life again. Winner of Best Political Film at the **Hamburg Film Festival**.
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Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2016.
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Through a combination of rare archival footage, home movies and private letters, Yitzhak Rabin’s personal and professional dramas unfold. From his childhood as the son of a labor leader before the founding of the State of Israel, through a change of viewpoint that turned him from a farmer into an army man who stood at some of the most critical junctures in Israeli history, through his later years during which he served as Prime Minister and made...
90) Only in Theaters
Publisher
GR Consulting
Pub. Date
2022.
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There has been a Laemmle in the movie business since there’s been a movie business. A story of a beloved Arthouse Cinema chain in Los Angeles with an astounding Hollywood legacy. Four generations have dedicated themselves to elevating the art of filmmaking. Popularizing independent, foreign, and documentary films, and their filmmakers, the Laemmle Theatres’ impact on Hollywood and world cinema, cannot be overstated. Filmed over 2 years, ONLY IN...
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A comprehensive, inspiring and fascinating discovery of what Jews believe about the Messiah-and why you might believe in the Messiah, too.
"The conviction that the Messiah is coming is a promise of meaning. It is a source of consolation. It is a wellspring of creativity. It is a reconciliation between what is and what should be. And it is perhaps our most powerful statement of faith-in God, in humanity and in ourselves."
-from Chapter 1, "The Messiah...
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El cristianismo ha oscurecido el hecho de que Jesú s enseñ ó el judaí smo. Esta pé rdida es visible de muchas maneras, como la interpretació n erró nea de muchas Escrituras del Nuevo Testamento. Este libro redescubre el inquebrantable, e incluso reforzado, compromiso con la Ley por parte de Jesú s y de los autores...
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PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
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A celebration of the lives of Hudson Valley Holocaust survivors...the wisdom they bring to our society...and the acknowledgement of a cathartic healing process where they turn their inner most personal stories into inspirational songs embracing their resilience and pride in surviving and living.
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Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
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It is not widely known that a handful of prisoners in the Nazi death camps managed somehow to take clandestine photographs of the hell that was being hidden from the world. Director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs.
96) Famous Nathan
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Rich in nostalgia, FAMOUS NATHAN pushes the boundaries of conventional documentary filmmaking, as kaleidoscopic and layered as Coney Island itself, capturing the honky-tonk, in-your-face spirit that was Nathan's Famous in its hey-day and today. An insider documentary by Lloyd Handwerker, grandson of Nathan Handwerker, who founded the legendary Brooklyn eatery and iconic New York institution, Nathan's Famous, in Coney Island in 1916. Over a thirty-year...
97) Monkey Business
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2017.
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Curious George is the most popular monkey in the world. Since his introduction in 1941, the beloved series has sold over 75 million books in more than 25 languages. MONKEY BUSINESS explores the lesser-known tale of George’s creators, Hans and Margret Rey. After their four-week honeymoon to Paris turned into a four-year residency, they accidentally became children’s book authors when a publisher suggested they create a book out of a cartoon Hans...
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Knopf
Pub. Date
1982
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As a one volume work, this book is unequaled and it has deservedly become a classic in its field. Written in the highest tradition of historical scholarship, it interweaves religious and philosophical factors with the social, political, and economic background of Jewish life from pre-Biblical times to today. Dr. Sachar discusses the religious heritage of the Bible, the significance of the prophets, Jesus, the essence of the Talmud and reform Judaism,...
99) In Their Name
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Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2022.
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December 1941: a group of women and a 10-year-old girl named Sorella Epstein are photographed after being ordered to take their outer clothing off in freezing temperatures. Humiliated and silenced, they are among 3,640 Latvian Jewish women and children massacred by Nazi troops and their Latvian collaborators at Skede Beach, Latvia. Almost 80 years later, Ethel Davis, a 90-year-old Jewish Australian, is till haunted by this massacre. She is the author...
100) The Wars of the Jews
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Written in 75 AD by the Jewish historian and Roman citizen Titus Flavius Josephus, "The Wars of the Jews", describes Jewish history from the capture of Jerusalem in 164 BC. to the destruction of the city in 70 AD. Josephus, born in Jerusalem in 37 AD with the name Yosef ben Matityahu, was from a Jewish family with a father of a priestly heritage and a mother who claimed to have royal blood. Josephus fought against the Romans in the First Jewish-Roman...
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