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  • Film, Video
    Jews of Iran a documentary Catalog Record Only Documentary on the Jewish community in Iran. Interviews with several Iranian Jews reveal the discrimination that the Jewish community has faced as well as the positive aspects of life in Iran.
    • Contributor: Farahani, Ramin - Nederlands-Israëlietisch Kerkgenootschap
    • Date: 2005
  • Film, Video
    Shishah yamim be-yuni
    שישה ימים ביוני / Catalog Record Only
    "In June 2007, the age of 40 years since the Six-Day War drastically changed the face of Israel and the Middle East. Not for nothing called the war as the "watershed" of Israel. There is hardly an event or process that affects our lives ever since that started in June 1967."--From www.iba.org.il/ibadoc/ Israel Broadcasting Authority.
    • Contributor: Instinct Films - Ziv, Ilan - Fichman, Ina - Martin-Gousset, Luc - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) - Point Du Jour (Firm)
    • Date: 2007
  • Film, Video
    Watermarks
    Hakoah Lischot Catalog Record Only
    Story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Vienna sports club Hakoah. Founded in 1909, the club grew into one of Europe's biggest athletic organizations and its women's swim team virtually dominated national competitions in the the 1930s. The club was eventually shut down during Hitler's reign, though all the women managed to escape capture. It combines historical footage and contemporary interviews with...
    • Contributor: Dorfan, Ronen - Kino International Corporation - Israel, Yonatan - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Zilberman, Yaron
    • Date: 2005
  • Film, Video
    A treasure in Auschwitz Catalog Record Only A young Israeli, Yariv Nornberg, is captivated by the story of buried Jewish artifacts in the Polish town of Oswiecim, next to the infamous Auschwitz extermination camp. He organizes an archaeological excavation to unearth the treasure.
    • Contributor: Gat, Yahaly - Muse Productions - Dragoman Films Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2005
  • Film, Video
    Sereṭ ʻaravit = Fīlm ʻarabī = Arab movie
    סרט ערבית = فيلم عربي = Arab movie / | Variant title from disc: Arab movie | Fīlm ʻarabī Catalog Record Only
    "So many Israelis still wax nostalgic about that old Friday afternoon ritual, back in the times when television had just one channel. Everyone would watch the Arab movie of the week, but did anybody ever wonder how Israel's official TV station was able to transcend hostile boundaries to obtain these films, and why it insisted on showing movies made by "the enemy"? The Arabic-language...
    • Contributor: Tsifroni, Sara - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) - Trabelsi Productions - Bizawe, Eyal Sagui - Goldberg, Ayal
    • Date: 2015
  • Film, Video
    Asurot Detained = Sajīnāt
    Detained | Sajīnāt Catalog Record Only
    This film documents the living conditions of three Palestinian widows and their eleven children in Hebron. Their house lies literally on the border between the area of Palestinian and Israeli control. In front of the house is an Israeli military post, an Israeli watch point is on the roof, while the Palestinian Authority controls the area to the rear of the house.
    • Contributor: Ushpiz, Adah - Open Society Institute - LC Collection (Library of Congress) - Even, Anat - Noga Communications
    • Date: 2001
  • Film, Video
    Li-khetov kemo she-tsarikh = Writing as I should
    Writing as I should Catalog Record Only
    "In July 1998 director Lena Chaplin shot a film on writer and critic Batya Gur for an Israeli television documentary program [i.e. the documentary series 'Uvda.'] The film was never broadcast. After her death, the film was edited and completed. A patchwork of interviews with Batya Gur and intimate encounters with her family and close friends reveals not only the fundamentals of her literature...
    • Contributor: Chaplin, Lina - Brzezinski, Pony - Aruts 8 (Television Station : Israel) - Gur, Batya - Ruth Diskin Films (Firm) - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) - Freidenberg, Benjamin - Goldschmidt, Asher
    • Date: 2010
  • Film, Video
    Mendelsohn's incessant visions
    Mendelson, ḥezyonot bilti posḳim Catalog Record Only
    "A cinematic meditation about architect Erich Mendelsohn based on his letters and a memoir by his wife Louise. As a young man, he drew sketches on tiny pieces of paper and sent them, from the trenches, to the young cellist waiting for him in Berlin. She believed in his genius and after World War 1, she helped him become the busiest architect in Germany....
    • Contributor: Mendelsohn, Erich - Ilfman, Haim Frank - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) - Shaviṭ, Yaʻel - Shaffer, Seann - Engelmayer-Dror, Galie - Second Authority for Television & Radio (Firm) - Zygote Films - Dror, Duḳi - Irwin, Debbie - Mendelsohn, Luise
    • Date: 2011
  • Film, Video
    ʻOfot ha-ḥol Phoenixes
    עפות החול Phoenixes / | Phoenixes | Phonixes Catalog Record Only
    "Phoenixes tells the profound and moving stories of seven Shoah survivors who have played a significant role in the development of Israeli society. The contributions of the survivors to modern Israel are invaluable: Israel would not look, sound, taste and feel the way it does without their work. The optimism in the stories of the survivors is palpable, and it provides fresh insight into...
    • Contributor: Tapuz Communications - Ruth Diskin Films (Firm) - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) - Hoenig, Yoram - Teitelbaum, Raul - Shagrir, Micha - Gil, Zvi
    • Date: 2009
  • Film, Video
    The underground in the tunnel of time ha-Maḥtarot be-minheret ha-zeman
    The underground in the tunnel of time המחתרות במנהרת הזמן / | Maḥtarot be-minheret ha-zeman Catalog Record Only
    DVD. NTSC. Written and directed by Benjamin Ohry ; produced by S. Y. Production, Bitton Yehuda In Hebrew with English subtitles. Received: 9/24/2013 from Asian & Middle Eastern Division, Israel/Judaica Section; purchase; LC Collection. המחתרות במנהרת הזמן / סרטו של בני עורי.
    • Contributor: Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) - Ohry, Benjamin - Ruth Diskin Films (Firm)
    • Date: 2010
  • Film, Video
    The night of fools
    Leil ha-fetaʼim Catalog Record Only
    "The story of Algerian Jewry's Anti-Nazi Resistance, which on November 8th 1942 succeeded (with only 400 young men) in taking control of the capital city of Algiers, where there were about 25,000 French pro-Nazi soldiers. They kept control for one night, and handed over the city to the Americans, who landed on the city's shores the next morning"--Container.
    • Contributor: Beladina, Paul - Sheder Productions - Daniel, Jean - Kimchi, Rami - Danan, Maxime - Zermati, Jacques - Peauphilet, Bernard - Israel. Rashut Ha-Shidur - Timsit, Martial - King, Tammy ... Beladina, Paul - Sheder Productions - Daniel, Jean - Kimchi, Rami - Danan, Maxime - Zermati, Jacques - Peauphilet, Bernard - Israel. Rashut Ha-Shidur - Timsit, Martial - King, Tammy - Ben Amram, Kalia - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) - Kosh, Yoav - Molkhou, Paul - Abulker, Jose - Sitbon, Claude - Atlan, Paula - Taouss, Maurice - Baraness, Ilan
    • Date: 2014
  • Film, Video
    Meragel ha-shampanyah The champagne spy
    מרגל השמפניה The champagne spy / | Champagne spy Catalog Record Only
    "Oded Gur-Arie was born in Israel, and as he was growing up in the 1960's, his father would frequently go away on business trips for weeks on end, with little warning of when he would be coming or going ... [when] Ze'ev Gur-Arie moved to Paris with his wife and son ... he told young Oded what he did for a living -- he...
    • Contributor: Gur-Arie, Oded - Schirman, Nadav - LC Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2009
  • Film, Video
    A cantor's tale Catalog Record Only "The tradition of Eastern European Jewish cantorial music is alive and well in modern America in no small part thanks to the efforts of Brooklyn-born Cantor Jacob Mendelson. 'Jackie' as he is affectionately called by everyone, explores the American roots of 'hazzanut' (Jewish liturgical music) while taking us on a musical voyage that spans the Atlantic, originating in his birthplace of Boro Park, Brooklyn...
    • Contributor: Malovany, Joseph - Mendelson, Jacob - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Miller, Benzion - Ergo Media Inc - Anjou, Erik
    • Date: 2007
  • Film, Video
    ha-Shivah le-Ḥefah : maḥazeh
    השיבה לחיפה : מחזה / | Return to Haifa Catalog Record Only
    In Hebrew. Title from container. Yossi Kantz, Nisim Zohar, Misha Teplitzki, Mira Awad, Norman Issa, Rosina Kambos, Erez Kahana. Directed by Sinal Peter ; set by Frida Shoham ; costume design, Ofra Confino ; music, Mika Dany ; lighting, Hanni Vardi First performed on April 21, 2008. Sources used: video container; OCLC record number: 426093964 ; heb. Wikipedia ; http://archive.is/20120722051838/www.cameri.co.il/ #518, April 24, 2018....
    • Contributor: Awad, Mira - Issa, Norman - Teplitzki, Misha - Teʼaṭron Ha-Ḳameri Shel Tel-Aviv - Peter, Sinai - Kantz, Yossi - Cambos, Rozina - Kanafānī, Ghassān - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) - Gaʼon, Boʻaz - Zohar, Nisim - Kahana, Erez
    • Date: 2008
  • Film, Video
    Gotenland : a film about the Holocaust in Crimea Catalog Record Only "The film about Holocaust in Crimea In November 1941, the German Army occupied the Crimea peninsula. In a short time, murderous Aktionen of the Jews begin - as in the rest of the Soviet occupied territories. The Nazis planned to turn the Crimea into an inseparable part of the Third Reich - they called it GOTENLAND - the land of the Goths. The shores...
    • Contributor: Maftsir, Boris - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) - Ruth Diskin Films (Firm) - Shefy, Zvi - Benjamin, Avi
    • Date: 2016
  • Film, Video
    Megerot ha-zikharon = Drawers of memory
    Megerot ha-zikharon Catalog Record Only
    "In the sixth film of the project about the Shoah in the Former Soviet Union, filmmaker Boris Maftsir set out on a journey to uncover the memory of the Holocaust in Latvia, where he was born and grew up until he made aliya to Israel in 1971. The drawers of memory open as the search exposes the complex history of the Jews of Latvia:...
    • Contributor: Maftsir, Boris - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) - Ruth Diskin Films (Firm) - Shefy, Zvi - Benjamin, Avi
    • Date: 2016
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    Asir be-lev ha-ʻir : ḳomedyah = Prisoner of Second Avenue
    אסיר בלב העיר : קימדיה = Prisoner of Second Avenue / | Prisoner of Second Avenue Catalog Record Only
    "The story revolves around the escalating problems of a middle-aged couple living on Second Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Mel Edison, the main character, has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age, during an economic recession. The action occurs during an intense summer heat wave and a...
    • Contributor: Vino-Elad, Sarit - Teʼaṭron Ha-Ḳameri Shel Tel-Aviv - Vilozni, Shmuel - Friedland, Dahlia - Abramovici, Tracy - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) - Simon, Neil - Zohar, Nisim - Doron, Dina - Teʼaṭron Ha-ʻironi Beʼer-Shevaʻ (Beersheba, Israel) - Ophir, Alon - Maoz-Kepten, Maya - Bijaoui, Eli
    • Date: 2011
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    Ṭovyansḳi
    טוביאנסקי / | Tubianski | Tobianski Catalog Record Only
    "In 1948 Tuviansky, a captain in the Israeli army and a former major in the British army, was arrested. Within four hours he was interrogated, tried, sentenced, executed and his body was thrown into a pit in the ground. Tuviansky was accused of treason because he had innocently supplied a list to his British boss at the power plant - a list of vital...
    • Contributor: United King Films (Firm) - Agami , Rami - Zehavi, Oz - Naim, Ofer - Gedalia, Amir - Leon, Michael - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) - Celektar, Micha - Edery, Leon - Nissimoff, Riki Shelach - Nmc United Entertainment (Firm) - Levy, Eliran Eviatar - Katzenelenbogen, Shira - Edery, Moshe
    • Date: 2015
  • Film, Video
    Siyur mudrakh ba-Ḥevron
    סיור מודרך בחברון | Also known as : Guided tour in Hebron | Shovrim shetiḳah Catalog Record Only
    Israeli soldiers discuss the treatment they were ordered to carry out against Palestinians in the West Bank town of Hebron.
    • Contributor: Yakob, Yossi - Shovrim Shetiḳah (Organization : Israel)
    • Date: 2008
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    Sakin ba-lev : ḥaśifah : kol ha-emet ʻal tokhnit "ha-hitnatḳut" ṿeha-bitaḥon shelkha
    סכין בלב : חשיפה! : כל האמת על "תכנית ההתנתקות" והביטחון שלך / Catalog Record Only
    In Hebrew. Title from disc. Sources used: video disc ; OCLC record number 659744500 ; http://torot.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%AA-%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%97.pdf , January 04, 2019. Received 2019-01-04 from AMED; source of acquisition unknown; Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) "הפגנה בטלפון! : 1-800-20-33-22".
    • Contributor: Maḥaneh Ha-Leʼumi He-Ḥadash - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2005
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    Shivre temunot Yerushalayim, pereḳ 5-6 = Fragments of Jerusalem, part 5-6.
    שברי תמונות ירושלים, פרק 6-5 = Fragments of Jerusalem, part 5-6 | Shivrei T'munot Yerushalayim (1996) Catalog Record Only
    VHS format. Title from videocassette housing. Hafaḳah Ron ṿe-Z'aḳlin Ḥaviliyo ; ʻarikhah Tor Ben Miyor. Sources used: label on videocassette housing; OCLC record number: 745242416 & 226959353 ; IMDb website, June 29, 2017. Received 2017-06-29 from AMED; gift ; Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) Not viewed.
    • Contributor: Ben Mayor, Tor - Havilio, Jacqueline - Havilio, Ron - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1995
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    Shivre temunot Yerushalayim, pereḳ 7 = Fragments of Jerusalem, part 7.
    שברי תמונות ירושלים, פרק 7 = Fragments of Jerusalem, part 7. | Shivrei T'munot Yerushalayim (1996) Catalog Record Only
    VHS format. Title from videocassette housing. Sources used: label on videocassette housing; Lccn 2017411083. Received 2017-07-12 from AMED; gift ; Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) Not viewed.
    • Contributor: Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1995
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    Shivre temunot Yerushalayim, pereḳ 1-2 = Fragments of Jerusalem, part 1-2
    שברי תמונות ירושלים, פרק 2-1 = Fragments of Jerusalem, part 1-2 | Variant title from IMDb: Shivrei T'munot Yerushalayim (1996) Catalog Record Only
    VHS format. Title from videocassette housing. Hafaḳah Ron ṿe-Z'aḳlin Ḥaviliyo ; ʻarikhah Tor Ben Miyor. Sources used: label on videocassette housing; other parts as lccn 2022396782 (pereḳ 3), 2022396783 (pereḳ 4), 2017411083 (pereḳ 5-6), 2017411101 (pereḳ 7)--July 11, 2022. Received 2022-07-11 from AMED; gift ; Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) Not viewed.
    • Contributor: Ben Mayor, Tor - Havilio, Jacqueline - Havilio, Ron - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1995
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    Shivre temunot Yerushalayim, pereḳ 3 = Fragments of Jerusalem, part 3.
    שברי תמונות ירושלים, פרק 3 = Fragments of Jerusalem, part 3. | Variant title from IMDb: Shivrei T'munot Yerushalayim (1996) Catalog Record Only
    VHS format. Title from videocassette housing. Hafaḳah Ron ṿe-Z'aḳlin Ḥaviliyo ; ʻarikhah Tor Ben Miyor. Sources used: label on videocassette housing; other parts as lccn 2022396781 (pereḳ 1-2), 2022396783 (pereḳ 4), 2017411083 (pereḳ 5-6), 2017411101 (pereḳ 7)--July 11, 2022. Received 2022-07-11 from AMED; gift ; Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) Not viewed.
    • Contributor: Ben Mayor, Tor - Havilio, Jacqueline - Havilio, Ron - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1995
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    Shivre temunot Yerushalayim, pereḳ 4 = Fragments of Jerusalem, part 4.
    שברי תמונות ירושלים, פרק 4 = Fragments of Jerusalem, part 4. | Variant title from IMDb: Shivrei T'munot Yerushalayim (1996) Catalog Record Only
    VHS format. Title from videocassette housing. Hafaḳah Ron ṿe-Z'aḳlin Ḥaviliyo ; ʻarikhah Tor Ben Miyor. Sources used: label on videocassette housing; other parts as lccn 2022396781 (pereḳ 1-2), 2022396782 (pereḳ 3), 2017411083 (pereḳ 5-6), 2017411101 (pereḳ 7)--July 11, 2022. Received 2022-07-11 from AMED; gift ; Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) Not viewed.
    • Contributor: Ben Mayor, Tor - Havilio, Jacqueline - Havilio, Ron - Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1995