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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Passover Among Yemeni Jews, The (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    Religious studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Filmed during the Passover in a village in Israel which was settled by Arabic-speaking Jews from the Yemen. The villagers reconstruct the preparations for the Seder.

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  4. 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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  5. Different World, A / Messenger from Poland (1987)

    Producer
    Raye Farr
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 92 minutes), £14.99

    A DIFFERENT WORLD (1987) offers a nuanced and subtle look into interwar Poland and the relationship between Jews and Poles during this turbulent yet promising time, a time of hope and transformation, a time...

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  6. 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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  7. Four Films After Shoah (1985)

    Director
    Claude Lanzmann
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 439 minutes), £24.99

    Claude Lanzmann’s follow-ups to his landmark SHOAH, each of the four films explores in further depth specific aspects and events of the Nazis’ extermination programme. A VISITOR FROM THE LIVING (1997)...

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  8. 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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  9. Who Shall Live and Who Shall die? (1982 Film)

    Director
    Laurence Jarvik
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The story of the political battle that took place in the United States to prevent the extermination of the Jews during World War 2. From the Evian Conference of 1938 the Jewish question was a prime political...

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  10. Yellow Star, The (1980)

    aka: Holocaust: The Yellow Star

    Director
    Dieter Hildebrandt
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 84 minutes), £14.99

    Attempts to cast light on the causes of the crimes against the Jews under the German National Socialist reign of terror. Documents the history of the persecution of the Jews in Europe between 1933 and 1945...

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