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TITLE: Mama's Couscous
YEAR: 1993
DIR/PROD: Serge Ankri
COUNTRY: Israel
LANGUAGE: Hebrew w/ English subtitles
TIME: 50
SOURCE: Can be rented for $100 from Sephardic Society in New York City, Ph. 212.496.2173 Sephardic@Juno.com
TEXT: On the Sabbath evening, the extended family assembles for 'Mama's Couscous.' Tunisian-born director documents this important tradition, while posing questions about Zionism, religion, and the Holocaust.
Matza Balls and Black Eyed Peas
TITLE: Matza Balls and Black Eyed Peas
YEAR: 1994
DIR/PROD: Daniel Robin
COUNTRY: US
LANGUAGE: English
TIME: 24
SOURCE: Daniel Robin, 2429 24th St., San Francisco, CA 94110, tel: (415) 821-4931
TEXT: MATZA BALLS AND BLACK-EYED PEAS is an intensely personal look at a young Bay Area couple's interracial, interreligious relationship.
The Mission to Evian
TITLE: The Mission to Evian
YEAR: 1988
DIR/PROD: Erika Szanto / Akos Ravasz
COUNTRY: Hungary
LANGUAGE: Hungarian w/ English subtitles
TIME: 92
SOURCE: Hungarian Television, Budapest
TEXT: In July 1938, a meeting of reps from 32 countries was convened in Evian-les-bains, France prior to the war. The Nazi's offered to sell their Jews for $250 each. Unless the deal was struck 40,000 would be sent to death camps. The story focuses on the efforts of Professor Benda to strike a deal.
Max and Morris
TITLE: Max and Morris
YEAR: 1994
DIR/PROD: Jacob Goldwasser / Marek Rozenbaum, Ronni Ackerman
COUNTRY: Israel
LANGUAGE: Hebrew w/ English subtitles
TIME: 80
SOURCE: Transfax Film Production, Tel Aviv
TEXT: a popular Israeli musical comedy about petty criminals, starring Moshe Igvy
Marjorie Morningstar
TITLE: Marjorie Morningstar
YEAR: 1958
DIR/PROD:
COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: English
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TEXT: Natalie Wood plays the title character from a Herman Wouk novel of the same name. Marjorie, a Jewish college grad falls for composer Noel Airman (played by Gene Kelly) at an Adirondack hotel. Noel ignores her and plays the field, while good guy Wally, the playwright, actually loves Marjorie, but, of course, she rejects Wally. Includes seder and Bar Mitzvah scenes.
The Naked and the Dead
TITLE: The Naked and the Dead
YEAR: 1958
DIR/PROD:
COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: English
TIME:
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TEXT: Jews get bullied by racists. How will they react?
The Miracle on Intervale Avenue
TITLE: The Miracle on Intervale Avenue
YEAR: 1983
DIR/PROD: Ken Howard / Irving Rappaport
COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: English
TIME: 65
SOURCE: Ergo Media
TEXT: A documentary look at the once thriving Jewish community of the south Bronx, which miraculously continues despite the emigration and decay that surrounds it. Focuses on the interaction of the Jews with their Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and African American neighbors.
Madame Rosa
TITLE: Madame Rosa
YEAR: 1977
DIR/PROD: Andre Hoss / Moshe Mizrahi
COUNTRY: France
LANGUAGE: French w/ English subtitles
TIME: 104
SOURCE: Hen's Tooth Video
TEXT: an elderly Jewish ex-prostitute and madam runs an unofficial nursery school for the children of her prostitutes and cares especially for an orphaned 14 year old Arab boy.
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
TITLE: Next Stop, Greenwich Village
YEAR: 109
DIR/PROD: Paul Mazursky / Paul Mazursky
COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: English
TIME: 109
SOURCE: Fox Video
TEXT: In 1953, Mazursky moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan. This is the story of a young man who does the same thing in order to live as a struggling actor. He deals with his stereotypically overbearing Jewish mother. With Lou Jacobi, Lenny Baker, and Shelley Winters
My Dinner with Abbie
TITLE: My Dinner with Abbie
YEAR: 1989
DIR/PROD: Nancy Cohen
COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: English
TIME: 57
SOURCE: Cinema Guild
TEXT: This is an interview with Abbie Hoffman. It was completed shortly after his Apirl 1989 suicide. It is a comic meal at Sardi's NYC Deli between the 60's radical Hoffman, and the filmmaker nancy Cohen. Hoffman discusses his life and politics, sex, fleeting fame, midlife crisis, death, and his life underground
Madame Jaques Sur la Croisette
TITLE: Madame Jaques Sur la Croisette
YEAR: 1995
DIR/PROD: Emmanual Finkiel
COUNTRY: Frankreich
LANGUAGE: French w/ English subtitles
TIME: 40 minutes in 35mm
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TEXT: Every Spring, a group of elderly, Yiddish speaking French Jews gather in Cannes to reminisce. Maurice search for love with Mme Jaques, who is from a higher social class than he.
Martha et Moi
TITLE: Martha et Moi
YEAR: 1990's
DIR/PROD: Jiri Weiss
COUNTRY: Germany/France
LANGUAGE: English subtitles
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TEXT: A Czech Jew marries his Christian housekeeper in Southern Germany prior to 1938, and moves back to Prague after the anschluss. The War brings problems and they must try to save each other.
Miris Dunja
TITLE: Miris Dunja
YEAR: 1982
DIR/PROD: Mirza Idrizovic
COUNTRY: Yugoslavia
LANGUAGE: Macedonian
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TEXT: A Sarajevo man profits and becomes rich from his association with the Nazis, but then he becomes infatuated with a Jewish girl.
Moi Ivan Toi Abraham
TITLE: Moi Ivan, Toi Abraham
YEAR: 1993
DIR/PROD: Yolande Zauberman
COUNTRY: France
LANGUAGE: French
TIME: black and white
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TEXT: Many Christain boys were sent to apprentice in crafts with Jewish families. Ivan goes to a Jewish family in the 1930's and befriends Abraham and even learns Yiddish. Ivan and Abraham run away to the countryside as World War II approaches, and try to escape from prejudice together.
Mina Tannenbaum
TITLE: Mina Tannenbaum
YEAR: 1994
DIR/PROD: Martine Dugowson
COUNTRY: France
LANGUAGE: French w/ English subs
TIME: 100
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TEXT: A very melodramatic French film focusing on the 25 year friendship between 2 women who were born on the same day in the same hospital to overbearing mothers (one Ashkenazi, the other Tunisian). The svelte, artistic Mina and husky Ethel have so much in common, including the falling in love with the same man, which strains their close relationship.
Noa at Seventeen
TITLE: Noa at Seventeen
YEAR: 1982
DIR/PROD:
COUNTRY: Israel
LANGUAGE: Hebrew w/ English subtitles
TIME: 86
SOURCE: Ergo Video
TEXT: a social satire of Israel in 1951, focusing on teenage girl named Noa.
Number our Days
TITLE: Number our Days
YEAR: 1977
DIR/PROD: Lynne Littman
COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: English
TIME: 29
SOURCE: Direct Cinema Limited 1-800-525-0000
TEXT: Famed cultural anthopologist Barbara Myerhoff's landmark study of elderly Jews in Venice Beach California. Winner of the 1977 Academy Award for best short documentary.
Night and Fog
TITLE: Night and Fog / Nuit et Brouillard
YEAR: 1955
DIR/PROD: Alan Renais / Eduard Muszka
COUNTRY: France
LANGUAGE: French w/ English subtitles
TIME: 32 minutes
SOURCE: Video Images, Sandy Hook, NJ / or the NY Public Library / or www.videoflicks.com
TEXT: Narrated by Michel Bouquet. Intercuts film footage from Nazi German death camps with the same location 10 years later (in 1955) to describe the horrors and atrocities of the camps in WW II. Maybe someone should do an update and visit the camps now.
Northern Exposure
TITLE: Northern Exposure
YEAR: 1990's
DIR/PROD: Joshua Brand
COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: English
TIME: 30 and 60
SOURCE: Nat. Jewish Archive of Broadcasting/Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Ave, NY NY 10128, USA
TEXT: A variety of shows from the series about a young Jewish doctor, Joel Fleischman(Rob Morrow), from New York City and Columbia University, who practices in a remote Alaskan town. Many of the shows dealt with Jewish themes. Most notably, All is Vanity (about Holling's circumcision); Body in Question; Caddish for Uncle Manny (in which caddish Joel seeks out Alaskan Jews with whom to say Kaddish); Grosse Point 48230 (Joel visit's Maggie's family); Mud and Blood; Old Tree; Our Tribe (Joel is adopted by a tribe); Russian Flu; Seoul Mates (Joel gets an xmas tree); Sleeping With the Enemy; Thanksgiving; and The Aurora Borealis.
Naomi's Legacy
TITLE: Naomi's Legacy
YEAR: 1994
DIR/PROD: Wendy Levy
COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: English
TIME:
SOURCE: Women Make Movies, NY, NY (212) 925-0606
TEXT: To paraphrase the Jewish Bulletin, 'at 35, Wendy Levy has already confronted and conquered a lifetime of unhappiness... A Brooklyn native, Levy watched her parents' rancorous marriage dissolve in divorce, mistook her mother's alchoholism for schizophrenia, and yearned for a sense of grounding in family history that she never received from her grandparents... Yet Levy seems to have come to terms with all of these personal anxieties and to her credit shares them in an award-winning (1994 Princess Grace Award, Cary Grant Film Award, National Jewish Video Competition) film. Narrarated by Levy, the focus is on a 16 year old character named Naomi who finds her mother's home movies and cassette tapes, and learns about the history of her mother and grandmother through a mixture of archival war footage and 'intensely personal family footage.'
Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Had Communist Parents
TITLE: Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Had Communist Parents
YEAR: 1993
DIR/PROD: Jean Jacques Zilbermann
COUNTRY: France
LANGUAGE: French and Russian w/ English subs
TIME: 90
SOURCE: Alexander Heylen, 34 Rue Poncelet, 75017 Paris France Tel:33-1/44-40-05-55
TEXT: A popular French comedy narrarated by a ten year old character. The setting is Paris in 1958, when the electorate was debating between de Gaulle and the Communists. The story focuses on the boys parents. His mother, Irene, is a concentration camp survivor who was liberated by the Soviet Red Army. Ever since her liberation she is a diehard, unquestioning lover of all things Soviet. Her husband hates all things Soviet. But then the Red Army Choir arrives for a concert in Paris, and Irene falls under the spell of the choir's dynamic, virile leader.
My Knees Were Jumping
TITLE: My Knees Were Jumping, Remembering the Kindertransports
YEAR: 1996
DIR/PROD: Melissa Hacker
COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: English with just some brief German w/ English subtitles
TIME: 75 minutes in 16mm
SOURCE: Melissa Hacker, 235 West 12th St., New York, NY 10014, tel: (212) 255-5081 Or email: myknesswerejumping@yahoo.com or buy it from NCJF@brandeis.edu
TEXT: Until now, the extraordinary story of the kindertransports has not been captured on film. With tremendous courage and ingenuity, a group of British Jews and Quakers conceived of a rescue mission that saved the lives of 9,354 children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland between December 1938 and August 1939 (Kristallnacht was November 1938). Seventy per cent were Jewish; the rest were Gypsies and others. Ninety per cent never saw their parents again. In recording her Viennese-born mother's story, filmmaker Melissa Hacker reveals the isolation of the rescued and the way memories and fears were transmitted to the next generation. The filmmaker's mother is Ruth Morley, the Oscar nominated costume designer. Narrated by Joanne Woodward. Was selected by Sundance in 1996. Note to File: There was a reunion of Kinder in London in 1989. 200 were expected, but 1,200 showed up. My Auntie Told Me
TITLE: My Auntie Told Me
YEAR: 1995
DIR/PROD: Jessica Shamash
COUNTRY: UK
LANGUAGE: English
TIME: 14, video
SOURCE:
TEXT: a video montage of Indian Jews in prayer and in life.
My Wife from My Enemies
TITLE: My Wife from My Enemies
YEAR: 1994
DIR/PROD: Jan Sedaka
COUNTRY:
LANGUAGE: Hebrew w/ English subtitles
TIME: 60
SOURCE:
TEXT: A documentary looks at 3 intermarriages between Arab men and Jewish women in Israel.
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