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Being
Jewish in France
(France
2007)
Yves
Jeuland's sweeping documentary explores the rich and complex history
of Jews in France--the first country to grant Jews citizenship--beginning
with Revolutionary cries of Vive la France in Yiddish through
the explosive Dreyfus Affair, Vichy's murderous betrayal during WWII,
and the absorption of Jews from Arab countries in the 1960s to charges
of rising antisemitism in the 21st century. More
The
House on August Street
(Israel
2007)
The
remarkable, unknown story of Beate Berger, a German Jew who single-handedly
rescued over 100 children during the Holocaust, smuggling them from
Berlin to Palestine in the 1930s. Berger, founder of the House of Love
Children's Home, was quick to recognize the Nazi threat and resolved
to protect the 120 children under her care on "August Street.”
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Settlement
(USA
2008)
Twelve
years after the release of his landmark film Shtetl,
Emmy-Award winning director Marian Marzynski, a pioneer of European
cinéma-vérité, returns to one of his favorite subjects
- the mystery of survival during the Holocaust. Settlement, the most
recent of Marzynski's critically-lauded autobiographical films, benefits
from the director's highly personal approach to filmmaking and his subject.
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Dreyfus
Revisted: A Current Affair
(Israel
2006)
The
Dreyfus Affair, one of history's most notorious cases of criminal injustice
and antisemitism, set off an international uproar that served as a prelude
to the Holocaust and as a catalyst to the development of modern Zionism.
Dreyfus Revisited
offers a cogent history of the affair and explores its relevance to
pressing contemporary concerns. More
Dear
Mr. Waldman
(Israel
2006)
In Tel Aviv in the 1960s 10-year-old
Hilik knows his goal in life–to make his parents happy and compensate
for the grief they both suffered in the Holocaust. The fragile equilibrium
of Rivka and Moishe’s new, post-war life begins to waver when
Moishe convinces himself his son from his first marriage, didn't actually
die in Auschwitz...
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The
Last Jews of Libya
(USA
2007)
The
Last Jews of Libya
documents the final decades of a centuries-old North African Sephardic
Jewish community through the lives of the remarkable Roumani family
who lived in Benghazi, Libya, for hundreds of years. Thirty-six thousand
Jews lived in Libya at the end of World War II, today none remain.
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Yippee:
A Journey to Jewish Joy
(USA
2006)
Directed by award-winning American
filmmaker, actor and screenplay writer Paul Mazursky, Yippee
chronicles the director's journey to Uman, a small Ukranian town that
is the site of a unique annual gathering of Jewish men making pilgrimages
to the burial place of Rabbi Nachman (1772-1810).
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2
or 3 Things I Know About Him
(Germany
2005)
Malte
Ludin's documentary about his father, Hanns Ludin, a prominent Nazi
who was tried and executed as a war criminal in 1947, focuses on how
his family grappleswith -or refuses to engage- the history of their
family and of Weimar and Nazi Germany more generally.
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