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Making of a Holy City, The (2012)

Subject

History; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.92

Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore explores the history of Jerusalem, one of the oldest cities in the world, in this three-part BBC documentary series.

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Mirrors of Paradise (1991 Video)

Director

Jurgen Schadeberg

Subject

Arts and Humanities; History; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £50.00

Celebrates the cultural and religious co-existence between Muslim, Christian and Jew which throve in Spain prior to 1492 and so influenced the European Renaissance. Features poetry, architecture, paintings,...

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Schindler (1983 Video)

Director

John Blair

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 79 min., 1999 sale: £14.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Oskar Schindler was a Czech-German industrialist and a German spy. He was also the only German to save thousands of Jews from Hitler’s extermination camps during World War 2. This documentary of his life...

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Face of Jewish Socialism, The (1986 Video)

Director

Riva Krut; Ronnie Landau

Producer

Jerome Reback

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 32 min.

A history of Jewish socialism between 1881 and the First World War. It deals not only with Jewish socialism inside Russia under the last two Czars, but with socialism as an international export, via over two...

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World Within, A: Carmel - A Jewish Public School (1988 Video)

Producer

Patti Langton

Subject

Education

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Jewish tradition is based in family life. Explores the way Carmel College, a Jewish boarding school, answers the needs of its pupils - the ethos of the school, the curriculum tailored to meet both the...

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Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? (1990 Video)

aka: Holocaust, The: Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?

Director

Jill Fullerton-Smith

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Re-examines memories of Nazism and the extermination of European Jewry on the eve of German unification. Explores the controversial ideas of author Professor Arno Mayer and the wider arguments about...

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It’s a Boy! (1995)

Director

Victor S Schonfeld

Producer

Victor S Schonfeld

Subject

Anthropology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 41 minutes), £20.00

Follows the traditional Jewish circumcision of an infant who ended up being treated for severe septicaemia three days after the procdure. Dr Jenny Goodman suggests that circumcision among Jews, Muslims and...

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Pharaoh’s Holy Treasure, The

Subject

Archaeology; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 59 minutes), £20.00

Looks at the work of British scientist Robert Feather, who claims to have unlocked the secrets of a copper scroll found by the Dead Sea in 1952. It lists the burial sites of priceless ancient treasures - and...

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Islam Denounces Terrorism

Subject

Religious studies

This film presents the Muslim response to and denunciation of terrorism. Beginning with the events of September 11, the film explains that all kinds of violence against civilians are crimes against humanity...

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Out of the Melting Pot (1994 Video)

Producer

Jeremy Cooper

Subject

Anthropology; History

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 2001 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The Jewish-American community of Los Angeles is confident enough of its American identity to be rediscovering and reasserting its Jewishness. This film uses actuality, personal testimony and expert opinion...

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