This documentary presents the theatre performance “The Passion” which deals with the trial and death sentence of Jesus and is performed in Obermmergau, Germany, every 10 years. Obermmergau is a Bavarian village with thousands of inhabitants, mostly orthodox Catholics. The performance “The Passion” was written and performed by locals. It was first performed in the 17th century to honor Jesus as none of the locals had died from the black plague that was spreading through Europe at that time. For the inhabitants of the village, the play was a religious experience that also proved financially rewarding as it...
First 4 episodes of the Israeli TV series about the Jewish life in the USSR and the immigration to Israel. Part 1 - "Deep Anxiety". Part 2 - "America Now". Part 3 - "Annihilated Cities". Part 4 - "Five Recent Stories"
A television drama. Rothschild stands for one of the most powerful banking families. The representative of the fate of many wealthy Jewish families before World War II. Mayer Amschel Rothschild left the Frankfurt ghetto in 1756 and learned the profession of dealing in coins and banking. In 1811, he transferred a substantial sum to Frankfurt, in return for which the Jewish community received civil rights. To this day, however, the mysterious and fascinating “Rothschild” name is the subject of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and smear campaigns.
A documentary and an animation movie. Amid the aftershocks of the French Revolution, many Jews gained civil rights. With the anxiety of a liberalizing Europe, accounts began to spread of secret meetings in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague. An influential letter claimed that the “Hebrew sect” was controlling the Jacobins and Freemasons. Jews, once marginalized and vilified on theological grounds, were, with emancipation, held up as master manipulators. Within a generation or two of their new freedoms, three Jewish families with nothing in common would be implicated in the alleged conspiracy, and, soon after,...