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American-born Naomi Zeavin goes back to her family's town of Augustow, Poland and organizes support from Solidarity and the Catholic clergy to build a memorial and hold a commemoration service for Augustow's Jews. A moving and inspiring journey showing what one woman can accomplish.

Director : Naomi Zeavin

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 29

Language : English

Yentl

Dramatization of "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy," by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991). In an Ashkenazic shtetl in Poland, Yentl Mendel is the boyishly klutzy daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe ("Talmud Teacher") Mendel, who teaches Talmud (a codification of Jewish Law) to local boys - and to Yentl, but secretly because girls were not allowed to learn the law in those days. When her father dies, Yentl is all alone in the world. She takes the momentous decision to leave the village and - disguised as a boy and calling herself by the name of her late brother, Anshel - seeks and gets admitted to a Yeshiva, to...

Director : Barbra Streisand

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 125

Language : English

And There Was Poetry Forever - Testimony and Remembrance Evening, The International Congress Center, Jerusalem, 21.05.2007, Part 2

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 92

Language : English, Hebrew

And There Was Poetry Forever - Testimony and Remembrance Evening, The International Congress Center, Jerusalem, 21.05.2007, Part 1

Documentation of an event marking 40 years of "Archive of the Sanctification of God's Name" and to honour the launching of the encyclopedia "Mikdashei HaShem" by Rabbi Yehiel Grantshtein. The film also includes a survey of exhibitions that appeared under the auspices of the Archive - Institute for documenting research and perpetuation. Material on the lives of the Israeli people in the diaspora are exhibited, in the Holocaust and rehabilitation of refugees. Also at the event, a discussion between survivors and second-generation, fathers and sons, representatives of the continuation of Jews, in spite of the...

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 66 85

Language : English, Hebrew

The Believer

דרמה המבוססת על סיפורו האמיתי של דני באלינט, תלמיד ישיבה לשעבר שהפך להיות אנטישמי וניאו-נאצי שניהל חיים כפולים, רודף יהודים, אך גם תלמיד תורה. ככל ששמו של דני נעשה מוכר יותר בחוגי הימין הקיצוני, כך יהדותו הפכה מסוכנת עבורו. הוא נמלט מניו יורק עם חבריו מגולחי הראש, אך קטטה במעדנייה כשרה מביאה אותו למעצרו והוא נשלח לעבוד עם ניצולי שואה. בעוד הוא שומע על סיפורי הזוועה שלהם, הוא מתפרץ ומטיח בהם האשמות על חוסר האונים שלהם והפסיביות שהפגינו מול הנאצים, על רצונם לסבול ולשרוד על פני להילחם חזרה, אפילו במחיר חייהם. יחד עם זאת הניצולים משפיעים עליו בדרך שאפילו הוא אינו מודע לה. בזמן שהוא מניח פצצה בבית כנסת יחד קבוצת...

Director : Henry Bean

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 98

Language : English

The Quarrel

Drama directed by the Israeli director Eli Cohen ("The Summer of Aviya", "Two Fingers From Sidon") at the center of which is a disagreement between two Shoah survivors, Chaim and Hirsh, who meet by accident one day in a park in Montreal in 1948. The two, graduates of orthodox yeshivas have chosen for themselves different ways of life; Chaim is a secular author and journalist, he lost his faith even before the Shoah and Hirsh is an orthodox rabbi whose faith only got stronger. In the chance meeting of the two an old argument comes up about faith and the existence of God.*

Director : Eli Cohen

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 88

Language : English

Chasing Shadows

This documentary tells the story of Hugo Gryn, a London rabbi, who returns after 40 years to his hometown in Berehovo, in the Carpathian Ruthenian area, Czechoslovakia.

Director : Naomi Gryn

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 50

Language : English

Zerach - A Refugee and Remnant in the Holocaust

This documentary examines the rescue voyage led by Zerach Warhaftig, one of the leaders of Religious Zionism, and a former minister, Knesset member, and lawyer. Warhaftig worked to help seven thousand Jews flee from the Nazis in the beginning of World War II. Based on original footage and testimonies.

Director : Adir Zik

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 58

Language : Hebrew

Mir Yeshiva

Rabbi Baron lectures: 1939-1945 Meer Yeshiva, history. Pre-war, 500 students, all countries, before transferring the Yeshiva to Shanghai. War breaks out, Yeshiva moves to Vilna (Lithuania). Chanukah 1940, authorities object, Yeshiva moved to little shtetl named Kedainiai. Yeshiva breaks up, searching for an embassy in order to escape Russian regime. Dutch embassy enables Yeshiva to move to Koraso area that they reached via Japan. Japanese council, Lithuania, supplied them with visas to Japan. February 26, 1941, left by train to Wladivostok, on to Japan by...

Duration : 75

Language : English

Where Was God?

A discussion on faith, religion and the Holocaust. Survivors who were born to religious families relate their stories and discuss about faith during the Holocaust and afterwards. Orthodox Jews outline their views on the Holocaust. Conversations with academicians and Rabbis.

Director : Abraham Kushnir

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 58

Language : Hebrew

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