Titles tagged "jewish studies"
A Matter of Size
A Matter of Size is an Israeli comedy (yes, comedy!) like nothing you've seen before- a hilarious and heart-warming tale about a coming out of a different kind: four overweight guys who learn to love themselves through the Japanese sport of sumo wrestling! Now Available on DVD 
Dough
A comedy drama about the unlikely friendship of an old Jewish baker & a young Muslim. Now Available on DVD 
Inside Hana's Suitcase
"Inside Hana's Suitcase" is the poignant story of two young children who grew up in pre-WWII Czechoslovakia and the terrible events that they endured just because they happened to be born Jewish. Now Available on DVD 
Lodz Ghetto
The Labyrinth is a story of survival and man’s resilience in the face of unspeakable horrors. The documentary takes the viewer on a journey through Marian’s labyrinth; close-ups and slow panning of the drawings are used as a way to bring people into the drawings and ultimately into Marian’s world as he recalls his experience at Auschwitz. Now Available on DVD 
Nicky's Family
Ordinary British stockbroker Nicholas Winton organized the rescue of 669 children from Prague just before the outbreak of World War II. As a result of his heroic efforts, today there are over 6,000 descendants of “Winton's Children” all over the world. Winton, now 104 years old, did not speak about these events with anyone for more than half a century. Now Available on DVD 
Samuel Goldwasser
The personal voice and individual story of Samuel Goldwasser turns the increasingly distant history of the Jewish ghettoes and Nazi concentration camps into an immediate, physically and emotionally experienced reality. Now Available on DVD |
Afterward
Afterword delves into the secret wounds carried by victims as well as victimizers as the Jerusalem-born filmmaker seeks to make sense of the the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the wave of anti-Semitism sweeping the globe. Now Available on DVD 
Doing Jewish: A Story from Ghana
Who would expect to find Jews in Ghana? Not Gabrielle Zilkha, for sure. But when she volunteered to work in Africa and found herself a lone anadian Jew awash a sea of Christians as the Jewish New Year approached, that's exactly what happened. Now Available on DVD 
Happy You're Alive
“Happy You're Alive” documents the tragedy of battle in the West Bank and the lasting effects of war on society as both forces play out in the lives of two men struggling after their encounters in combat. Now Available on DVD 
The Labyrinth
The Labyrinth is a story of survival and man’s resilience in the face of unspeakable horrors. The documentary takes the viewer on a journey through Marian’s labyrinth; close-ups and slow panning of the drawings are used as a way to bring people into the drawings and ultimately into Marian’s world as he recalls his experience at Auschwitz. Now Available on DVD 
The Matchmaker
Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele, a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a movie theater that shows only love stories, run by a family of seven Romanian dwarves in the seedy area by the port. Now Available on DVD 
Numbered
Auschwitz prisoners, both Jewish or non-Jewish, were tattooed with serial numbers, first on their chests and then their left arms. An estimated 400,000 numbers were tattooed in Auschwitz and its sub-camps; only some several thousand survivors are still alive today. Now Available on DVD 
Welcome to Kutsher's
Kutsher's Country Club was the last surviving Jewish resort in the Catskills. One of the legendary Borscht Belt hotels during its heyday, Kutsher's was family-owned and operated for over 100 years, until its sale and demolition in 2014. Exploring the full Dirty Dancing-era Catskills experience through a close up look at Kutsher’s rise and fall, this award-winning film captures a last glimpse of a lost world as it disappears before our eyes. Now Available on DVD |
After Auschwitz
Hoping to find a sense of normalcy, six female Holocaust survivors immigrate to America, get married and raise children. Coming Soon to VOD/DVD 
Big Sonia
For years, Sonia Warshawski (92) has been an inspirational public speaker at schools and prisons, where her stories of surviving the Holocaust as a teenager have inspired countless people who once felt their own traumas would leave them broken forever. Now Available on DVD 
Human Failure
The expropriation of assets from German Jews during the Third Reich benefited virtually every German citizen. It was not only the Gestapo who invaded Jewish residences to confiscate all property, from bank accounts to the last item of clothing, it was the German Tax officials. Now Available on DVD 
Little White Lie
Little White Lie tells Lacey Schwartz’s story of growing up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity — despite the open questions from those around her about how a white girl could have such dark skin. Now Available on DVD 
Monkey Business
The Labyrinth is a story of survival and man’s resilience in the face of unspeakable horrors. The documentary takes the viewer on a journey through Marian’s labyrinth; close-ups and slow panning of the drawings are used as a way to bring people into the drawings and ultimately into Marian’s world as he recalls his experience at Auschwitz. Now Available on DVD 
Ruthie and Connie
Set in working class Jewish Brooklyn — RUTHIE AND CONNIE follows two very funny, if rather traditional housewives. Like many young women in the 1950s, they got married. Then, like many young women in the 1970s, they got divorced. Unlike most, however, they both left their husbands for another woman: each other. Now Available on DVD 
The Zigzag Kid
Starring Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet, Death Becomes Her, Enemy) THE ZIGZAG KID is a whimsical, witty, and action-packed adventure about an almost-thirteen-year-old boy named Nono and his world of confusions, fears and fantasies. Now Available on DVD |
