This documentary tells of the Jewish people in the 20th century. Includes footage from the film The Illegals (1947-1948), persecution of the Jews in Germany and Russia, Nazism and events of the Holocaust. Narration by actor Steven Hill.
This documentary tells of the Jewish people in the 20th century. Includes footage from the film The Illegals (1947-1948), persecution of the Jews in Germany and Russia, Nazism and events of the Holocaust. Narration by actor Steven Hill.
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,...