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Beth Hatefutsoth Films

Beth Hatefutsoth's Video Film Collection started with the opening of the Museum. Visitors to the Permanent Exhibit may use one of the Study rooms to view hundreds of films at their own choice. The Video Film Collection consists of about 800 documentaries, depicting all aspects of Jewish life in the Diaspora:

  • Jewish communities all over the world
  • Jewish life in Eastern Europe before World War II
  • Jewish History
  • Jewish Art
  • Contemporary dilemmas of Jewish Identity
  • A small but rare collection of archival material depicting Jewish life and family scenes mostly in Germany and Poland and rare footage of Eastern European Jewry between the two World Wars.
  • A unique collection of amateur films, mostly from East European countries between the two World Wars, but also from other European and North African countries and the USA.

Beth Hatefutsoth is looking for anyone who has in their possession home movies documenting various aspects of Jewish life, such as family or historical events, to donate them to the film archive of Beth Hatefutsoth. Our aim is to enrich the collection held in the Visual Documentation Center and to make it available to the public at large.

Beth Hatefutsoth has produced some thirty documentaries in connection with the changing exhibitions displayed at the Museum, which are available for purchase through the museum shop.
 

Synagogues, Art and Heritage
 Three films about synagogues in the Diaspora:
PAL/NTSC 30 min

  • The Temple - The synagogue, its structure and rituals.
  • The Ceiling - The Chodorov synagogue, Eastern Europe, and its painted ceiling.
  • A Model - Description of the Synagogue in Curacao

Price:

(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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Chinese Jews on the Banks of the Yellow River
The unique story of the Jews of Kaifeng.
PAL/NTSC 13min

Price:

(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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The Jews of San'a
Daily life of the Jews of San'a at the beginning of the 20th century.
PAL/NTSC 16min

Price:

(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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A Delayed Talk
Discussion held between Israelis originating from Tarnow and Poles of their generation
PAL/NTSC 32 min

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(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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Golden Fields
Attempts to settle Jews on the land, especially in Eastern Europe, in the Czarist era until World War II.
PAL/NTSC 26 min

Price:

(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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To the Smoldering Cities
A journey made in 1988 in the footsteps of the Jews of Zaglembie, region of southern Poland.
PAL/NTSC 36min

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(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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Three Communities
Three films depicting Jewish life in Novogrudek (Eastern Europe), Fez (Morocco) and Salonika (Greece) until WWII.
PAL/NTSC 37 min

Price:

(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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Babylonia, Spain, Ashkenaz
Three films on centers of Jewish life in the Middle Ages.
PAL/NTSC 30 min

Price:

(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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The Jews of Spain
Two films:
PAL/NTSC 30 min

  • In the Footsteps of Marrano Families: Mendes-Nasi; Lopes Suasso; Curiel
    The story of three prominent Jewish families after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 .
  • Living Moments in Jewish Spain - Jewish life in medieval Spain as depicted in illuminated manuscripts of the time.

Price:

(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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Hazamir Does not Sing there Anymore
The story of the Jewish community in Lancut, Poland, during WWII.
PAL/NTSC 30 min

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(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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And still the Melody Returns
The story of the Jewish community in Reisha (Rzeszow), Poland.
PAL/NTSC 20 min

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(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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Luniniec - Kozonhorodok
Photographs from the community album.
PAL/NTSC 15 min

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(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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Letters from Leningrad
Jewish youngsters in Leningrad in the 1970's fighting for their right to immigrate to Israel.
PAL/NTSC 55 min

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(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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In the Warsaw Ghetto
Collection of testimonies of Holocaust survivors from the beginning of WWII until summer 1942.
PAL/NTSC 42 min

Price:

(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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Partizanka
Collection of testimonies of Jewish partisans in WWII.
PAL/NTSC 26 min

Price:

(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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The Death March
Collection of testimonies of Holocaust survivors who participated in the "Death March".
PAL/NTSC 19 min

Price:

(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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Return to Life
Five Holocaust survivors tell about their rehabilitation and aliya.
PAL/NTSC 60 min

Price:

(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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The King and the Fool
The story of Shlomo Mikhoels and Benjamin Zuskin, the leading actors of the National Jewish Theater of Moscow.
PAL/NTSC 40 min

Price:

(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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Workers and Revolutionaries
Two films about the Jewish Labor Movement in Russia and in the USA.
PAL/NTSC 12 min

Price:

(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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Two Animated Shorts
PAL/NTSC 19 min

  • The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela
    The journeys of the famous 12th century traveler from Tudela
  • Hagolem
    The story of the "Golem" of Prague created by Rabbi Yehuda Loew (the Maharal), 16th century

Price:

(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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Zionism - Here and Now - Problems Unresolved, 1997
Video Film raising dilemmas in the forefront of the public debate in Israel and the Diaspora. Questions deal with the definition of Zionism.
PAL/NTSC 13 min

Price:

(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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Mother Comes Down From A Cloud
Collection of testimonies of Holocaust survivors who were children during the war. (In Hebrew)
PAL 50 min

Price:

(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
(Outside Israel) US$20 (+ US$10 Shipping fee)
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Maxwell Street: A Living Memory - The Jewish Experience in Chicago

Images and memories of Jewish life in Maxwell Street, Chicago, where the first Jewish immigrants arrived at the beginning of the 20th century. Maxwell Street was a vibrant Jewish commercial center with a special atmosphere. The film is based on historical footage. (With Hebrew subtitles)
Produced by Shuli Eshel, email:eshelred@aol.com
PAL 30 min

Price:

(Israel only) NIS70 (+ NIS10 Shipping fee)
 
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